Spring Break 2015 - Tuesday

Day two of working. Can you guess what we did?

If you say drywall, you'd be correct. :)

We did have a small group that went up into the attic and did some insulating in the morning, but they ended up doing drywall later, too - hanging it in the dining room and entryway. The rest of us were either sanding or taping and floating (Yes, still. It's a seven-bedroom house). April, Debbie, Laura, Taylor and Julie are becoming quite proficient at taping and floating corners and even garnered a compliment from Will: "That doesn't even look like an amateur did it." I'll take it. :) I've also decided that closets are evil. (Not really, they're just hard to tape and float. You have all the corners of a big room, but you're crammed into an itty-bitty space, and there's no room for anyone else to get in there and help.)

Getting ready to leave in the morning.

Tyler sanding.

Daniel in his sanding gear.

Debbie doing a corner.

An example of some of the joints we had to tape and float.

And a finished room. 

And we had a little bit of time for fun today.

Lots of beautiful old trees on Lake Pontchartrain

Luke in a tree.

Climbing down is scarier than climbing up.

Reasons family photo

Taylor and Laura, just a-swingin'

One other thing we've noticed: You can tell the Aggies and the kids from U Mass apart by our choice of collective pronouns. We say "Y'all" (of course); they say "You guys."

Tomorrow... more drywall! We're only working a half-day, though, and then we're going to spend the afternoon/evening in New Orleans.

- Julie M.

P.S. Proof that (1) I'm actually on the trip and (2) working: