The Third Tuesday.

No pictures today. We spent most of the evening watching the election results.

At the Vermont House they finished the roof with the help of a great crew from Illinois. We are now ready for the next building inspection on Wednesday.

Approval was given for the siding to begin going up and it is going very well.

Once approval is given,insulation of the inside will begin followed by sheet rock.

The plan for tomorrow is for most of the team except those doing siding to go to the Waxman house. Once the inspection is completed, and with approval, most of the team will be called back to the Vermont House-it is about 25 minutes away.

The Vermont House will have batts of insulation installed in the ceiling (the Waxman House will have blown in insulation). This means that the team will be organized to staple the insulation into the ceiling, followed by sheet rock.

At the Waxman house we have resolved many framing problems to let us be able to install all but a few sheets of the ceiling sheet rock. One of the problems that existed was that the doors were not correctly framed in terms of width. Larry and Ann spent a good deal of time resolving that problem.

We use 5/8 th sheet rock for the ceiling and 1/2 inch for the walls. They try not to have both sizes on site at the same time because it is easy to confuse and time consuming to replace.

We are now at a place that we will start putting up the sheet rock on the walls. We have almost all of the insulation in the walls and have a star sheet rocker coming in to assist us with taping the walls.

Smiley has been a volunteer in Mississippi for almost a year. She married another volunteer. We met her at the Shed and she is coming to help move the work on the Waxman house along. We are excited to have her join our team.