So, the move is completed. The final pieces came over yesterday, with Karina powerlifting the remaining stumps into her truck solo. She has done some fabulous work in the last weeks pulling this together, and we all owe her a great big thanks! Thanks also to everyone of you who took the time to come by and chip in, adding extra hours, squeezing a few more in here and there to help get it done. The pre-game show on the last day of school helped us make some good headway on the remaining packing (which never seemed to end...). The dad's groups helped kick things off by coming in last Saturday and loading the pod, taking down cubbies and blackboards, and giving us a big boost. The manual labor award goes to Chris Hauck and Shelley Nelson who loaded and unloaded 2 U-Haul trucks on Wednesday (with lots of great helpers!), putting in a full day of moving. Thanks also to the cleaning crews who tackled the dirty beast when the movers were done. Every contribution to this effort has our heartfelt appreciation. 
Now for the up and coming. Well, we promised schedule changes, and we got them. We have a wedding reception taking place on the school grounds this weekend (a Bridge School teacher), and so Saturday will be a Free Day for our work crews. This Sunday the sandbox is starting, but no helpers yet as Cary Hendricks is bringing in his excavating equipment (what, you don't have earth moving machinery at your house?) and along with Jim Paulson is laying the groundwork- or is that un-laying the groundwork? Chris Hauck, Karina, Brett Piazza and I picked up 40-odd large stumps this morning, and they are now awaiting placement in the sand area. The next sandbox work weekend is scheduled for the second weekend in July.
Assuming adequate volunteers, we hope to have the fence crew kick off this Sunday as well. We need some folks to help with hole drilling (with a power auger). Julia and Sharon will be contacting those of you who volunteered, and of course, new volunteers are welcome.
The weekend of the 28/29th will be setting fence posts, moving stuff out of our garage, and starting on painting! Volunteers will be contacted, or feel free to take the initiative and call/email Julia and Sharon.
Lastly, after much thought and revision, we submitted the application for our building permit yesterday. They are promising us a quick turnaround, and we hope to have this in hand by end of the month! Demo and framing crews, this may push things up to the weekend of July 5th- assuming (and hoping) that enough people are in town. Start warming up your sledgehammer hands now!
Things are well on track at the moment, and we are looking forward to the getting the next pieces in place, as we build our new home!
With Gratitude,
Lynne
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