1. Roofing
2. John
3. Sean
1. Today we were broken down into smaller groups to work on various sites around town. Most people were clearing out a vacant lot to prepare for a house, others rode around in a truck picking up stuff for the ReStore, others were painting apartments. My group was tasked with replacing a section of roof on a Veterans house. We spent the morning ripping shingles off the section; there were at least 4 layers but somehow it was still leaking. We were supposed to get a delivery of plywood and roofing at 9 but it didn't come till 11:30. While we were on the roof we realized we didn't get enough plywood to cover, so our site coordinator went out to try and find more and pick up lunch. We waited for about an hour taking a nap under the tree. After lunch we were back up on the roof putting down the sheeting. All of the sudden someone came and picked up our site coordinator and he left without much instruction. Since we were alone and without materials to finish the project, we covered the roof with a tarp and put all the tools away.
2. Our site coordinator was named John. He was really layed back and was originally from Ohio. There were 6 of us, but he only had 2 harnesses and ropes to tie in with. There were 2 extra harnesses that people put on without tying off to anything, just in case someone was taking pictures of us. When we were eating lunch he had mentioned something about only being able to stay for the morning and someone else would be coming in the afternoon to supervise us. Once we were working after lunch, he gave us a rundown of what we were doing, and then next thing we know, a car drove up, picked him up, and he was gone. It wasn't until we had everything put away and our ride back was 5 minutes away that he came back.
3. The neighbor, Sean Clink, had came over to chat with the neighbor, and then with us. Turns out he is a cop on out on medical leave for a couple days. He was putting his gun into his holster in his locker and managed to get the key in the trigger area and it fired and grazed the tip of his finger. At some point one of his police friends came by in his cruiser. We talked him into arresting Shane who was working with us on the site. When he was getting ready to leave, we told him to go to one of the other groups and arrest Claire. Turns out she was using a weed eater and cutting down some illegal drugs, but he never got around to stopping by there. When John deserted us, Sean offered us just about anything we needed. He tried getting us into the neighbors pool, taking us to the lake to swim, showers in his house, taking us back to our host, or pretty much anywhere around town we needed to see. This was someone who knew absolutely nothing about Bike & Build and just happened to live next door and he was more than willing to do anything for us. He is trying to get us a police escort out of town tomorrow. It's people like this that make B&B so great. Just hearing all the different stories is awesome so I've decided to try and keep track of them on here.
I'm going to try and pick just a couple major points of interest from each day rather than dragging on forever on little stuff. It's hard to believe that we've only been at this for about a week and a half. It seems like so much longer. It's also great to me to see how happy hosts are to have us. If I were a host having 30 kids come crash for a night and have to make food for them, I would be really annoyed, but they have all been super happy to have us and have gone way out of the way to help out.
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