Up On The Rooftop

A Prayer Request

We have dear friends in three different places this week that are grieving because of the death of a loved one. There are people hurting all over but that is no comfort when the hurt comes home. Our hearts are saddened for our friends

Please pray today specifically for our friends at Hodgenville Pentecostal church in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Tanner Williams Church and Foster Grove Church both near Mobile, Alabama and the church at Cain Ave. in New Miami, Ohio. Thank you.
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Kelly Jo



This is also a special day for our family. Happy Anniversary today, Kelly Jo! Sorry about your luck but it looks like you are stuck! I love you, baby!

The Roof

We are so excited to see progress Up On The Rooftop! The Boggs and Fellers families arrived Wednesday morning and the metal arrived about 30 minutes later. The set into working right away even though they had driven nearly all night to get here!

They made incredible progress and here are several pictures to prove it! Odie is grinning from ear to ear and so are we!

Bro. Jimmy Millikin is preaching the day services of youth camp this week in Germantown and they graced us with a visit. We were so glad to see them.

They will be starting work again in a few minutes so it is time to get outside and try to be of assistance! Thank you for reading today.

Davy

House Update 6/28/2017

When I posted two blogs on Monday, I had no plans to miss blogging Tuesday. I guess I could say, "That is how the cookie crumbles" but since I have had no cookies to speak of in a few years, I am not even sure it is legal for me to say that.

Monday's blogs are HERE and HERE.

Tuesday was a long and productive work day on the house. After doing some measuring inside the house, I went to Waynesville Lumber to check on some plywood and to ask some questions. I forgot two of the most important questions but I knew I would be back there later in the day.

The plumber passed his 2nd rough in inspection about 10:00 and we  are thrilled with that. Once he was gone, I went to get Dad's truck. I went to two different Home Depot stores in order to buy 38 sheets of 1/2" B/C plywood. They call it 15/32" plywood now, but what is 1/32 of an inch among friends?

I brought it back to the house and Kelly Jo help me put it inside. 

She then helped me load some extra material in the truck that had to go back to Waynesville Lumber. I remembered to ask one of my questions but I forgot the second one again!

About 4:00 Steve and I began ripping all 38 sheets of plywood. We made four rips on each sheet for five pieces per sheet.

We set the scaffolding walk board to the right height to catch the plywood for each rip. Between that and Steve's help, the job went pretty smooth.

My phone battery died and was on the charger while we were working so I failed to get any pictures of Steve until we were finished. Gary Coffman pulled up with a tractor so I captured a picture of Steve next to it.

I had about an hour of daylight left so I gave the yard a quick mowing. During the last bit of mowing it was pretty dark so it will be interesting to see how the grass looks in the light of day.

Today I have to do some routing on every board we ripped. Any ideas what we need 190 boards for?

The metal for the roof is supposed to be delivered by noon today, but it gets better than that. Bro. Mitch Boggs Jr. and Bro. Jason Fellers and their families are supposed to arrive later today as well! 

We are anxious to see them all. WE love these dear friends and we are excited to see them. They will be putting the roof on the house and that is very exciting too!

When are you coming to see us?

Thanks for reading today.

Davy