Full Day

Introduction
Today is the last full day of work and each group is pushing to get as far as we can on their houses. At the beginning of the week, Irene and Ed (the head of the camp) warned us that we would not complete a house. I believe that John C. forgot this part. Each team is still running full steam even as the fatigue of the week is closing in. A perfect example of this is Mr. Shen's house.

Tiling
Mr. Shen's house had to be tiled. This means tiling, grouting, and a lot of cleaning for our large team of 10. Outside, we had Heather running the mixer for our mortar and grout.

Then Jay was our tile cutter running the saw.

Inside, Jim Z., Mitchell W., Kelly and Casey S were putting down the tile. Scott was an all around helper who brought the towels, buckets of mortar (or "houkie" as Jim called it), and shouted measurements to Jay.
After the grout dried, Norm, Edna, and Diana stepped in to clean up right before John C. came to grout. With grouting completed, everyone came back to mop the floor several times to get the tile nice and shiny.
This process has been done to half the house with the other half hopefully completed tomorrow.

Concrete
This particular house happened to have a dropped living room. John requested yesterday that it'd be filled in, so today a cement truck was brought in to fill it up. They stuck the slide right through the window and poured the cement in.

It come in quickly, but the team kept it under control. Afterwards, John got on the floaters and smoothed it out.


Stormy Weather
Midway through the day, a tornado warning was issued in our area. While we didn't spot any whirlwinds, we did get quite a nasty rain.


Dinner at "Aunt Jenny's" Restaurant
A delicious dinner of catfish, shrimp, or chicken was awarded to the team at the end of the day. It could have been a laid back evening of fellowship, but a few if of the guys turned the "All you can eat shrimp" into a contest.
It was a fierce race, with Scott taking an early lead. Mike B. dropped out around 36. Scott thought he had won, but from the other table a new competitor arose - Ed R who was at a mere 50, 30 behind Scott, but kept going. The munching continued, and slowly but surely Ed climbed to 90 shrimp as Scott called it quits at 101. In the end, Ed claimed victory with 106.