The first day of my last year of summer crew...

Cara and I are back at it for one more summer. We've worked together the past two summers on the summer maintenance team and we both thought that last summer would be our last...but WE'RE BACK! For the past two summers Cara and I have been the only women on the crew but this year we're joined by Cristina - trouble x3!


On Monday our first order of business was to demo the playhouse...


Cara taking a swing at it with the sledgehammer


We were going to try to pull it closer to the dumpster...


...but it was too rotten for that!


Our second attempt at dragging the playhouse...


...tore off the side.


We decided we needed to do an on-site demolition.


YUP!


Victory is ours!


Breaking down some of the pieces so that they'll fit in the dumpster.


Catharsis anyone?







Cara dragging away the floor.


And underneath we found this lovely surprise!


I'm really looking forward to one last summer on the crew. After 9 months of academic study I'm always more than ready to get outside and work. Yesterday we moved all of the furniture out of an entire duplex and today my muscles are definitely feeling it! I need to get back into shape. The guys even had me driving the truck and trailer to Goodwill to drop off a load of furniture - all we lost on our way was a lampshade which got stuck under the car that was following us...ooops! Today we started some exterior painting (which is much of what this summer holds) until the storms rolled in. We headed inside, but Cara and I found ourselves getting soaked anyway as we fought with the plumbing under a kitchen sink.

The adventure continues...
(check back regularly for pics of our summer crew antics and/or look back to last summer's blog entries for more accounts of Cara and Alicia's handiwork)