Once again
Ok, so I haven't posted in quite a while, and here I am, posting about the weather again...
But, I am actually VERY excited here. See, I haven't been in New England for the fall and winter in four years, and I didn't realize until last year how much I miss it.
So, it's getting cold, grey and drizzly, Halloween is coming, and I LOVE IT!!
WEEEEEEEE!!!! I haven't even thought about what I'm going to carve into my pumpkin! (another thing I love and haven't done in a while.) I bet I could get some interesting effects with ceramic trimming tools.
Ok, I'll talk about something besides the weather. I chaperoned a missions trip with the confirmation class at my church. As a few of you may know, I used to regularly go to West Virginia. We would repair houses and whatnot. This was the same basic idea, but in Maine with a younger group of kids--13 and 14, with one 10 year old.
So, ever seen an aggressively, precociously adorable 10 year old weilding power tools? Very cool. We painted, built a set of stairs, put up a ceiling and then built some bunks for the camp.
I was mostly on ceiling duty. The roof had been not leaking for one year. That was when the roof was replaced. Before that...a few decades? Several groups had looked at that ceiling and run away afraid at what might be hiding. I had the most ceiling experience in the group and couldn't really imagine that it would be un-handleable.
Worst case scenario (I foolishly thought...) was that we would take down the old ceiling, and find all the joists rotted out. We get a kid decked out in glasses and gloves and have them clear out the insulation. Then saw out the joists back to good wood, screw new joists up to the old ones, toss up new insulation, add drywall (greenboard, actually) and voila: a ceiling!
I love trips like this; you learn something new everytime. For example, that a ceiling can be hung from pure faith. Because, when there are no joists, none whatsoever, replacing them is not a possibility. That ceiling is, however, hanging nicely...from 1x2 strips wood attached to, I'm guessing, the edges of the trailer with no other support.
Then I stepped to the Canada side of a stone peir and flung a rock at America. And had ginger ice cream.
But, I am actually VERY excited here. See, I haven't been in New England for the fall and winter in four years, and I didn't realize until last year how much I miss it.
So, it's getting cold, grey and drizzly, Halloween is coming, and I LOVE IT!!
WEEEEEEEE!!!! I haven't even thought about what I'm going to carve into my pumpkin! (another thing I love and haven't done in a while.) I bet I could get some interesting effects with ceramic trimming tools.
Ok, I'll talk about something besides the weather. I chaperoned a missions trip with the confirmation class at my church. As a few of you may know, I used to regularly go to West Virginia. We would repair houses and whatnot. This was the same basic idea, but in Maine with a younger group of kids--13 and 14, with one 10 year old.
So, ever seen an aggressively, precociously adorable 10 year old weilding power tools? Very cool. We painted, built a set of stairs, put up a ceiling and then built some bunks for the camp.
I was mostly on ceiling duty. The roof had been not leaking for one year. That was when the roof was replaced. Before that...a few decades? Several groups had looked at that ceiling and run away afraid at what might be hiding. I had the most ceiling experience in the group and couldn't really imagine that it would be un-handleable.
Worst case scenario (I foolishly thought...) was that we would take down the old ceiling, and find all the joists rotted out. We get a kid decked out in glasses and gloves and have them clear out the insulation. Then saw out the joists back to good wood, screw new joists up to the old ones, toss up new insulation, add drywall (greenboard, actually) and voila: a ceiling!
I love trips like this; you learn something new everytime. For example, that a ceiling can be hung from pure faith. Because, when there are no joists, none whatsoever, replacing them is not a possibility. That ceiling is, however, hanging nicely...from 1x2 strips wood attached to, I'm guessing, the edges of the trailer with no other support.
Then I stepped to the Canada side of a stone peir and flung a rock at America. And had ginger ice cream.