......two weeks too early....so the guys had to stop what they were doing to unload. Home Depot here in Fairbanks didn't use a lift truck nor do they unload, so it was up to our guys to tackle the task.
They were beat to say the least at the end of the day! Sheetrock for a three story building is a lot of sheetrock to be unloaded one at a time. They were thankful that we still had the scissors lift truck.
Before that fiasco, they had to maneuver the scissors lift in between the new building and a small existing building.
They were working on the siding before the sheetrock was delivered and I think
In this picture they are backing the lift out to use for the sheetrock.
But all is good. The building is coming right along and it looks like good weather the rest of the week.
On Monday evenings, Joyce and Ginger meet with a quilting club at First Assembly. They make children blankets to give to the remote villages as a missions project. I'm not too much into quilting (ask my daughter) but yesterday I went along too. Who knows maybe someday? Carmen, don't laugh...( she knows I probably won't).
Yes, you see Ron Brown in the pic. He is the official seam ripper.
Alaskan Facts:
What is the only bird that grows feathers on their feet for the winter?
Answer. Willow Ptaemigan
Ptarmigan are arctic grouse. The willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) changes color from light brown in summer to snow white in winter for effective camouflage from predators. Another distinctive feature is its feathered toes. In winter months the willow ptarmigan eats mosses and lichens, willow buds and twigs, a little birch; seeds and berries when available. In summer their diet expands to vegetable matter and occasionally caterpillars or beetles.
Ptarmigan are sociable in winter and usually feed and roost in the snow close together. In spring flocks of several thousand sometimes appear en route to their breeding grounds. These huge flocks rapidly disperse as summer areas are reached and cocks demand elbow room for their share of the tundra.
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