First Day Of Work

Today we rode into town to begin our first day of work in Lebanon, Pennsylvannia.  The town is a blue collar, rural town/small city and the houses we are working on are in the downtown area.  The houses were side-by-side townhouses destroyed by a kitchen fire which killed one of the previous owners of one of the houses, a sobering fact we learned as we began our work.  We divided into two teams with one in the kitchen of the house opposite the main fire and one on the second story working between the floorboards.

The work was interesting as it entailed a certain amount of demolition. It was a fun and rewarding experience.  It will be intertesting at the end of the week to see how much work we accomplish.  Judging from all the work done today, it will seem very little to some, yet a lot to the families receiving the two houses at the end of the project.

Returning from work we all settled into either sleep or showers...then sleep.  We relaxed until dinner arrived in the form of two church volunteers who brought us a meal of macaroni and cheese with ham.  It was a lovely meal at the end of a long day and everyone enjoyed it greatly.

-Jack