Rains continue – March 6th, 2012

Day two of the house build.  We finished at around 4 pm yesterday, and exceeded our goal for the day.  Hopefully, today will also end up being a similar day.

Breakfast at Coco Lobo, followed by a ride to the build site.  To help us with the rains we stopped by the nearby “mini super” (grocery store) to pick up large trash bags.  See some styling pictures of us in those raincoats (below).

Today it was time to start putting up the interior walls and rafters.  The first interior wall to go up was the one separating the two bedrooms – John and I worked on it while the rest of the team worked on the rafters.  Mark’s instructions were clear – these are the nails that the kids will be staring at for years to come, so we needed to get them in as clean as possible and with a good pattern.  Tanya, Josh and Jessica worked on the rafters.  We were also joined by Anthony and Darlene (volunteers from the family’s church group), who proved to be extremely valuable with the roofing (and related) work.  They had a fantastic attitude and were willing to help out as much as possible. 

It rained on and off, and when it didn’t rain, the raincoat was really uncomfortable and hot.  When it rained, it was much needed.  An occasional quick downpour got us soaked, but Fidel and family served us some coffee and cake in the morning which helped us stay warm.
By lunch time, almost all the interior walls were up, including the doors to the bedrooms. The rafters were done as well.  Today’s lunch menu – roasted chicken, vegetables, rice and beans.

Post-lunch session: we had to close the holes on the four edges of the walls and finish work on the rafters so that roofing can be completed on Wednesday.  John and I had the task of closing out the four sides.  Three out of the four sides were relatively easy compared to the front, right edge of the house. 

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Tomorrow – speculated to be a shorter day:  doors, wiring, trims, beds and kitchen counter!

We headed to West Bay for dinner (Bananarama resort).  It was trivia night at that place - a couple of questions were interesting, but most were not!  Dinner was OK – nothing to rave about, but good company and beachside location made it a fun evening.