This weekend our friend Wes who played rugby with Craig at Michigan was in town for the weekend. What better way for him to enjoy Seattle then to help with our house? Along with Wes, two other rugby players, Ben and Alex Becker, came down from Anacortes. We treated them to a night on the town on Friday and in return, they helped out on Saturday along with two of our other local friends, Murph and JT. It's was super fantastic to actually have help for the first time and these guys got tons done. The most important of which was moving the 3000lb rock that was sitting right under our house in the way of the footings. You can see from the pictures below that it took the strength of three (burly) guys to lift this damn rock even an inch, but finally they were able to move it (while I stood around and took the pictures). In addition to the rock spectacle, Wes and Ben did a lot of rebar work, Alex helped cut down our trees and Murph and JT finished demoing our ceiling in the main room.
Today, Craig and I finished the forms and made it through a big chunk of the rebar. Another 10hour day...more pictures tomorrow.
3 comments:
Ragan I am amazed at your spunk and bravery. Never having met Craig, I am not sure if he is crazed or superman!
Jane Wagner
Wow Ragan--what a great project & the use of rugby players is fantastic! Hope things in Seattle are going well & you are having a great 4th of July! Mark your calendars for April 26, 2008--I'm getting married!
love,
heidi
You sure have some brawny fellas helping you! I am reading your blog daily and posted your blog on mine.
Say hi to Craig!
- een
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