Day 27

Happy Mother's Day!

Back to work. It started out the day by getting a flat tire. At least we hadn't even gotten out of Hickman before it happened. So back to our house to take the tire off and move everyone over to Jonathan's car. Then we were back on the way to Beatrice.

We got to the new house and started bending some of the tin in the metal break. We all worked to get it up to the roof. (Dad and Philip had put together two vise grips and a metal bar attached to a rope. We used this to pull the tin pieces up to the roof instead of carrying them up the three flights of stairs. I was very happy about this.) Once we had all of the tin on the roof. Dad started working. Jonathan was working on the basement, cleaning more stuff out and putting it in the dumpster.

Jonathan got most all of the junk out of this room and some of the stuff out of the next room. Wow it is starting to look pretty nice down here.

Mom and I started pulling up more tile on the 3rd floor. We now had one room finished and were making good progress on the first bedroom.

Things were going slowly for Dad. I went up on the roof with him for a bit. All of the little triangles were hard to work with. And they had to have so many bends on them. Then we went to the ground to make some of the bends. Dad went back up to put on his triangles. Jonathan and I started cutting some of the tin into 5 foot pieces.

Mom had started up the wood burner in the parlor. She was hoping to dry out the house a bit and at the same time burn up all of the branches in the yard. She was making good progress on the branches and it was nice to see the smoke coming out of the chimney.

When Jonathan and I had ten 5 foot pieces cut, Dad came down and we started to get them all bent on the metal break.

It was already starting to get late in the afternoon and it had been drizzling off and on. There was nothing left to do but start tarping the roof. Jonathan and I worked on that while Mom looked for wood that we could use to nail the tarps down and Dad tried to get the last few pieces of tin finished.

We all wish we could have gotten more of the roof finished, but at least we have a good start on it. Now we have to wait until Dad and Philip can come down to help us again (for the roof anyway).

Poor Jonathan still isn't feeling very good. So it has been a really long weekend for him. I hope that he will be feeling better soon.