Last week at the site we had a repeat local volunteer named Carolina drop by to help out again. She is from Lithuania and is here studying at UA. Five years ago, she was involved in a terrible auto accident in Poland and lost most of her left leg. I was going to say that she is confined to a wheelchair but she is definitely not. She uses a wheelchair to get around, that's all. She plays basketball in it. So when she was here last week, she first finished up instaling cabinet blocking in the kitchen and after that, I gave her a piece of plywood and a sharpie and had her be my scribe as I called out all'of the widths and heights of the nine window openings in the house. After that, I drew a sample sketch of how each frame would be assembled, with formulae of how to figure out the cut lengths for the different components. Top=width; sides = height minus 
11/2"; bottom = width plus 5", like that . From that, she cut and labelled all of the pieces for al of the window box units putting a letter a through i on the back of all the pieces. Then she left. I put all of the pieces away safely with the chunk of plywood with all of the info on it and yesterday, Monday, we have a new group in and all they have to ddo is assemble the boxes and install the cassing on three sides. Easy peasy. Not. Ooops. I have a feeling that you are guesing the end of the story already. Nine window frames, beautifully assembled and trimmed with casing and all had been re-cut wrong (don't ask). I was fuming inside but managed to hold my tongue and just walk away. The well meaning but not-watched-closely-enough volunteers offered to buy more wood for the re-do. Never enough time to do it right, always enough to do it twice. So that was the one group. The others who cqme to help'this week are from a local federal judges office with a number of law students who wil be helping out on a regular basis. The plan at start of day today was to have them painting the inside of the house. We hired old friend subcontractors Larry and Herman to ddo the drywall and finishing. These guys are amazing. They have been working together for over thirty years and they don't play. They started hanging the drywal in the house at noon yesterday and this morning met me at the site at 7am to sand a little for a half an hour and then we could start painting. Then Murphy entered. It was raining in the morning and everyone was traccking th sticky mud into the house. Herman came up to me qnd said, someone must have come in'in the night and cut up the drywall. He showed me all of the small seemingly knife cuts in a few of the rooms. Come to find out, his orbital sanding machine had a little wire or burr sticking out from it and as his guy was sanding'the walls, it was also messing them up and requird more compound which equals more drying time which equas all these guys you got stqnding around'here aint gonna be painting right yet. So I apologized for conditions beyond my control and sent them home. Sorry. Then I called Home Depot to make sure that the subfloor and bamboo flooring that I ordered last week to be delivered today was on schedule. Excuse, excuse, let me speak with the manager, you promised me, Ive got people stwnding around waiting on what you promised, wheres my excellent customer service, and like that, I calmly ranted on the phone. Borrowed the re-store box truck and went and picked it up myself and brought it to the site. Now we're ready for tommorrow which I can gaurantee will be a better day than today- Ciao- Peter.  Remember, Steady pressure and don't panic.