31st

those things over there are kumquats and they are also sweet ones..sampled both of them...did a14 mile bike ride over to a state park where they were holding a rendezvous from the time period around the early eighteen hundreds..intersting but mostly vendors...back to camp left our bikes then wallked to town for the festival w;hich was again mostly vendors..had a lat e lunch and a piece of kumquat pie...was good...a besy day

HERE R THE CLIPS

The base plate is screwed to the footer, the footer is screwed to the top plate, the baseplate and top plate are nailed to the rafters and the trusses so in effect the roof is secured to the footer by metal plates, nails,and screw rods all the way around the perimiter. Florida code requires either the nailed hurricane plates "or" the rods from footer to top plate....H4H uses "BOTH"!!!Cool uh?

CLIPS

here are some of the things that we've been doing on the houses..because they have the threat of HURRICANES it is code to put on hurricane clips on all studs and in various other places...of course the building codes are much different down here than up north...today we went off the the building where HABITAT is putting together a dorm room where groups can stay when they come here to help out...several of us put up partitions to help give them some privacy..this weekend there is a big KUMQUAT FESTIVAL in town that we plan on checking out...enjoy your weekend

SKIES OPENED UP

today is thursday and the weather forecast has been for rain this afternoon...well all morning it kept getting darker and darker.. a few sprinkles then it time for lunch...we asked should we take care of the tools??? the answer was NO just cover them up with plastic which we did...went off the lunch...then it started to sprinkle a wee bit..so it was decided to really take care of the tools under cover but by the time we did all that the skies really opened up and gave us all a FREE shower..thanks you mother nature.....so worked ended abut an hr early today.....and i even have a load of wet clothes in the washer...tracy

SNUCK OUT

chris and sam were leaving today and lar and i decided why not sneak out and take the day off and go with them to do some sightseeing to places we have wanted to go and it was on the way to where they were going...went to lakeland the city with all the swans..then on to plant city the city that is famous for strawberries and then to a fruit market that is the world's faamous strawberry shoirtcake...you have to wait a wee bit in loine but it goes fast...then buy some fruit and veggies very good prices...but there is also a long story on what happend along the way to are places onf interest...but i won't go into them cause the stkory is way to long hahahahah...tracy

1/26/09

finally the florida weather has arrived...it was HOT today and we even broke out in a sweat can you just believe that....another house has had the rafters put in place and the second can house has recieved it's prime coat of paint..chris and sam have been put to work right along with the rest of us....T