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Building in Portland

An excellent build day, we were all put to work and got a lot done!  We got shuttled to the build site, which was closer to the city, and then shuttled back for showers, and shuttled downtown for dinner at a brewery arranged by an alum, Sarah, and her roommate who coordinated our build with Habitat.

Hab-e-tat (Kristen's michigan accent haha)

My group consisted of Joe, Zach, Jesse B and myself.  A power build team if there ever was one, so we thought.  We were putting up the siding, which was pain-in-the-@$$ off-brand "hardy board."  It didn't cut well, and we had to try quite a few times to make some pieces that fit around stuff.  By lunch, we had hung a net of 0 boards haha, as we had to take down two from the day before, but we had the hang of it by then and made some real progress by day's end.  Lots of pictures actually!

Dave with the kitten

And Sarah G

Kitten!

Christina

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The roofs before we began

Jen loves her coffee haha...it's gross

He's also ready for a day of building!

Zach hammerin nails

Look at the concentration by Joe

Jesse must've got the short straw, he pick axed the hard ground all day haha

Noah's building at home

Caroline model shot haha

Marky Mark, he got a sweet tool belt somewhere

Finished roof!

It was a long day for the dog too haha

And here is my group's work:

Start

Finish

The dinner was at Green Dragon Brewery, and I got have two excellent local beers, an amber and a stout.  They had door prizes, and as I was leaving I snagged a t-shirt haha.  I caught a ride and navigated with Debbie, Jen's Mom up to Alberta Street where there was this HUGE street fair goin on.  It's called Last Thursday, and the last thursday of every month people come out to sell homemade stuff, play really awesome music all over the place, make food, and hang out.  It was about 20 blocks long, and the streets were full of people for every one of those!  At the end of the night I got a ride back in the B&B van so I didn't have to take the bus.  The concentration of hipsters was crazy, soooo many bikes and bike art and fixies...and I felt like I fit right in with the mohawk haha.