Saturday, September 08, 2007

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Seven high school seniors from the American International School in Budapest arrived here for a half-day of work Tuesday. Rain pre-empted further progress on site this week, truncating their anticipated 3- ½ days with us to Tuesday’s work and a day of “play” in rainy Szarvas before returning to Budapest Thursday morning.

The plan was/is to keep student teams as close to terra firma as possible, working with finishing blocking and sheathing the row house in OSB. The “higher ground” remains the play space for Levi and I and the families, as well as the GV team due here at the end of the month. Several “nit-noid” tasks (as my sister might say) remain, redoing misplaced blocking, planing errant studs and blocks that are out too far to accommodate OSB on the exterior and/or drywall on the interior, and reseating nails determined to wiggle their way out in the rain (regardless of how they were initially nailed up!).

Levi and I took advantage of a brief break in the weather Friday to hand cut more rafters in preparation for next weekend with a goal to build out as much of the rafter structure as possible with families/friends.

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