Diary From West Virginia.

Day 1

Its Mediocre Joke Monday, July 4^th, and I understand it’s a holiday but it is turning into a bad joke.  What is usually our mosey Monday is becoming very frustrating.  The Moseying is now a full work stoppage and everyone is getting antsy.  WE NEED TO BE WORKING!!  Materials are finally delivered around 2:30 just in time for the monsoon to hit.  We all race back to the van and try to come up with a game plan.  One discussion leads to another and before you know it hours have passed.  I reconnect with Chelsea and Erin and get to know Conner Rachel and Taylor better.  So this gray cloud of a Monday did indeed have a silver lining. 

Day 2.    It’s Tattoo Tuesday and I am hoping that this day will be more productive than yesterday, but really how could it not be?  We arrive at our site at 9:30.  We are waiting for our deck flooring to be delivered.  And waiting, and waiting… and waiting.  If nothing else happens this week God has a lesson plan featuring patience and I guess I am a very slow learner. 

Day 3.  Wide load Wednesday and we do a LOAD of work.  Yippee!  Old porch has been removed (gently), band joists attached and today we get to lay the deck floor.  The heat is BRUTAL as I watch the sweat drip from Mickey’s baseball hat brim onto Rachel’s pants.  But trooper that she is she just quietly moves her leg.  That how it is with all of crew Lima, we have our moments and then we all go about the task at hand. 

Day 4 Tie-dye Thursday – what a wacky unconventional week it has been so far.  We discover that we work so well together that our job here is almost finished.  A few more measurements, a few more cuts, a few more nails to be hammered… and then what.? It is only Thursday.  Well four year old ZKaylee and five year old Joshua Bryant the Second (as he introduces his self) comes to see if they can help us with “hammerin’” .  Before you know it cousin Levi comes over some dogs, a cute kitty, a few bike rides and piggy back rides later, the family that we really hadn’t connected with reverses all of that and we are bonding. The billboard on the church had it right: “God has no problems, only plans”.

Adriana