It is Thursday and one of the toughest task is done. Lifting and attaching the gable ladders is always hard. In addition to the difficulty everyone is up on ladders, scaffolds and near the edge of the floor.
We are grateful that that task is behind us. We thank the Lord for safety once again. Just as we were wrapping up the installation of the last ladder the Safety Inspector showed up to pay us a little visit. Kyong Jung was up in the attic when I met the Inspector. I said I do not speak Korean. He said "No English" I said that is good you can speak Korean I won't understand and I will speak English and you won't understand. All is Good. Then Kyong Jung came to save my day.
Tomorrow you will see guard rails installed, we think.

It is mid week and the bodies are already tired but we keep on task. We worked on  more roof framing and building scaffolding for getting us up to the high spots.

Will Loewen the pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church came for a visit. Will and his wife Anna spent two and half years here in Chuncheon as MC Canada Witness workers. Will spent the morning with us. We introduced him to the OSB Camel and scaffold building. Later in the evening several of us met for dinner and enjoyed fellowship around the Taki I Be Grill.

 Will pushing lumber up to the top level

 Others receiving the materials

 Will promoted to scaffold building

 Branden, please cut another 50 studs

 Installing Hurricane clips

 A reminder of the Cross at the building site

 Grace and Yoon Ju nailing brackets. Yoon Ju is a KAC employee that lives with the Kim family and is designated as our cook one day a week.

 The dormer on the right is starting to take shape and is the third gable.

The reward was a great meal. Doreen thinks it is too spicy. Branden stayed back at camp with all the other young folks and enjoyed rice........

Well it seems like we might be getting close to the highest point in this project. We are close to 10 meters off the ground and being close to the edge gives us the willies.

We will continue working on the framing and then a crew of three guys will be hired to put on the sheathing and shingles starting the first of next week.

Monday morning and we are back on the job. Today's task was to finish the attic floor decking and then start working on the roof system. With the roof being a 10/12 pitch the ridge board is over ten feet above the attic floor. It gives us all the willies to get close to the edge of the floor.

 Jerry looks lost.... probably is.

 Adding a window.

 My friend Joe, from Mississippi, the man who designed the house for KyongJung lives his life from a wheel chair. He asked the other day if I thought he could ride up the plywood camel in his chair. Joe, I think knowing you the answer would be, we'll find a way. Thanks for the help in drawing the plans. It has been a life saver having these drawings.

Today is Sunday and our day started by driving to church. Along the way we were slowed up because our route to church was also the route for the Annual Chuncheon Marathon. The race is run right past the window of the church that we attend. Across the street is the Peace Park and the Hung River in the background. It was interesting to watch the Marathon unfold in front of church. It was kind of Distracted Worship today especially because two of the runner are folks from the church here in Chuncheon. They are also two of our most steady volunteers coming to help at least three days a week and sometimes four. It was great watching them go by. Church was over by the time they came through. They were in a later starting group so running is done more for the enjoyment and challenge of completing. The church is sitting at about the 41 KM of the race so we got to see the lead runners go by at 2 hours and two minutes. The record for this marathon is 2 hours and 10 minutes. They may have beat that record by a few minutes. Our friends run between 4 and half hour and five hour marathon. Excellent.

 Grace and Sophia warming up the piano before church

 The lead car in the marathon

 The pace car showing 2 hours and two minutes with about 1 KM to go.

 The camera man on the back of the Motor Cycle shooting film of the lead runners.

 Third place

 Fourth Place. Prizes go to the first six places. So with 20,000 or so runners the odds are tough.

 A band beats the drums to motivate the runners to keep going.

 Some bodies gave out.

Sometimes in a pack.

 Sometimes in Costumes

 Sometimes it takes a wheelchair.

The last four pictures are of a couple that attend church here and are among the faithful volunteers at the construction site.



Korean Anabaptist Center is the building directly behind the man waving two fingers.

 

 Back to work in a few hours....