Construction!

today, randy and i both had the day off so we decided to work construction. since i have no qualifications and am generally not handy, it seemed like a great idea! through our church, we volunteered for our first ever habitat for humanity experience. 

i thought that you couldn't do construction if you didn't have experience, but then i saw this link and felt better. 

we worked alongside people from tnl, one other from our church, st. john's lutheran, and pepsi. the pepsi team brought excellent beverages. yaaay.

so...first off, i had no idea that randy was so good at construction. he was up on the roof and all over the place, being singled out by supervisors to do all the hard stuff. 

i got pegged for tasks like "can you hold this measuring tape?" etc. at first, but then i solved a confusing math error on the window plans for the crew leader! ha! 

by the end of the day, i had learned a lot from the supervisors, and i now know things like how to "walk out" a nail, what a "cat's paw" is, and the correct way to load, use, and change a caulking gun. big steps for a girl who usually works in the office, on the stage, or in the studio. we got three walls built and raised on the 2nd floor, plus some other odd tasks. 

that's randy on the left side of the duplex, top floor.

trivia: 708 was the area code for most of randy's life in aurora, il. and also when we lived in oak park.

when we volunteered for the job, we didn't know where the build would be, but we were excited to find out that it was not really far from our house at all. it's in our neighborhood, which made it even cooler to be helping out. in a way, it was like helping ourselves to improve our own community, and it will be exciting to be able to drive by often and see the progress!

also, we look dumb in hardhats...