The FULL California Experience!

Today was, shall I say, more than eventful! We started out the morning meeting at the church at about 6:45. We worked till about noon on tearing of the roof and laying tar paper. (For all of you roofers out there, they used staples to put on the shingles...a big no-no for tear-off. It took us at least twice as long to tear off because we had to go back and pull all of the staples because they do not pull up with shingles like roofing nails do. Please...always use nails.) We, of course, took a breakfast break and ended the job for the day with lunch...after all...we are Baptists; we've gotta have food!

Mr. MacDonell in DESTRUCTO mode

Sorry, I just thought that this was a cool angle!

Marcus (as I like to call him) pulls up a stubborn staple.

Luke Estrido diligently at work.

Josh, Me, and Jake, as we near the end of the tear-off job.

The roof at the end of today's work. We ran out of tar paper. :(

After we finished, the MacDonells took Mark and I out on the boat again for a little refreshment. Since we were planning to finish the roof tomorrow morning, Mark was just going to spend the night at the MacDonell's with me so that we wouldn't have to make the trek back to their house after we did the boat trip. We had a great time again, and this time, I remembered my camera! I will try to get some of the video footage I took posted soon.

Jake was showing off some of his wake boarding skills.

When we went to return to the MacDonell's house, the road was blocked by the sheriff...indefinitely. They were trying to get their next-door neighbor to come out of the house; we think there was some domestic violence problem or something. There has been quite a bit of this kind of trouble in this area lately. Anyway, we were unable to get to the house, and we were all in our boating gear, so we took a late trip to the Golden Arches for dinner, and then headed off to the Labin's house. They just couldn't get rid of me! We had a good time of games and fellowship, and actually ended up spending the night here at the Labins. I don't think that we are planning to do the roof job tomorrow anymore, since it is midnight and all the clothes that we have are our boating clothes...not exactly roofing gear!

I guess since this is a backpost I can tell you that the man didn't end up coming out of his house until 2:30 in the morning! Good thing we decided to stay at the Labins!

Now I feel like I can say that I have had the full CA experience, policemen and all!