We went to the cave at 10:00pm....



Everyone had a blast...


Here is some of our group...



Then we went to Carl's cabin....


Here we are on top of the cabin roof...


Everyone left at 11:40 something, we all had so much fun~
Thank you all for all of the work you have done on the barn. We are so blessed.
~Susie

We went to the rope swing...


And off the cable....

We had little helpers and big helpers...

Drew Eldredge






Caleb was showing me how easy it is to carry a board.



Jacob Hamacher...


Joel and David

Lots of work!!!

Mr. Hamacher wanted to help us again this last Monday, 9/9/08, and he brought with him 4 guys from Oklahoma. We had 10 awesome workers :) They were able to finish the roof and get the siding on another whole side. PTL!

We had lots of yummy food for dinner...



A hungy worker, Andy.



After dinner, some people went on the cable
that is over our pond.


There was a beautiful sunset that evening.


Thanks again, everyone, for all of the help.
God bless~

and some more work...

A hard worker, Carl, gets a drink...





.....Dad and Mr. Hamacher .....




In the afternoon, some of us went on a
bike ride.



Ben was quite happy to give people rides
on his new bike...

more work :)

We had another Barn rising last Monday.

There were 12 hard working guys to help us.

( the Hickle guys came, but I don't have any pictures of them, sorry)

We were so blessed to have the help.

The guys got the siding and roof on the summer

kitchen!

Work day Saturday, August 8th:



The master plans...




Everyone started to show up after 9 am and went straight to work... We first all started working on laying out and building the trusses.



Then the Nisbett boys showed up so Tom and Nisbett's started building the walls for the summer kitchen & feed room.



Jesse Lepich showed up with his little helper and we put up the braces that you see in the background



The first wall! (Also notice Caleb's little creation)



All the trusses are built other than the ends... here we were in the process of flipping and turning the end truss over when we paused for a picture.



The first end truss all built and stacked with the rest...



John N. doing the finishing touches to the walls...




Flipping the second end truss...



Every one was a big help!



Shuffling trusses...



The first truss goes up for final placement!!!



I am happy!


All the trusses up and now time for the final bracing...





Grace came over for the evening after they had driven for 24 some hours from Lake George... She organized a awesome cleanup crew!



God blessed us with an awesome day to work. It has been so hot and humid the last couple of weeks, it was a huge relief to have some cooler weather and then we had a nice cloud cover for the afternoon.

I would like to say a big thanks to everyone that came out to help!