New Build/Dolphin Sighting!

After spending most of the week doing touchups, painting and caulking, washing windows, basically making the house look pretty and ready to be moved into, we finally got to start a new build on Saturday! This picture is of a hallway that we went through and put blue tape on every little scratch or mark that needed to be touched up...it looks like the hall had chicken pox! But no need to fear, we fixed it all up and rid of the blue tape :)

The new build was at a different site (obviously) than we had worked on before, and with a new site supervisor and crew than we had worked with before too. It was really fun and a true learning experience, because the lead site supervisor, Mark made sure to take his time and explain everything to us before we did it. He said that he doesn't have a new project to work on after this house, so he is taking it slow, making sure that it is perfect, and that we all understand what we are doing. This is what the site looked like when we first got there:

The giant stilts are what the house has to be build on, and we didn't help put those in, but we did set up a bunch of scaffolding, which I had never done before, and then we looked at the blue prints, got a lesson on reading a measuring tape correctly (which I really struggle with sometimes, I prefer to say something like, "it's 4 inches and 2 little lines!" haha) some practice hammering in nails correctly, and I even got up on the scaffolding to help some of my team measure out and mark where the trussells go. Overall it was a pretty chill day, and beautiful 78 degree weather made it nice to be working outside again! We even went to a beach near the house in Pascagoula for lunch and walked down the huge pier and saw dolphins swimming around! It was amazing!