Thad was first on site and began arranging (ladders & scaffolds) and made sure the welders were ready for use. David, Cleddy, and TD arrived and while TD was cutting the joist (C purlins) to length, Cleddy and David attached weld plates to the spots that had been marked yesterday.

Charles Kasparian, excavator for McLennan County Co-Op (our electric company) stopped by to evaluate the job site. He will be bringing equipment out later today to dig the trench from the electric pole to the transfer box. We have decided to run all the electric under ground to the house versus over head.

By midmorning, the welders started hanging the joist TD had cut . They started over in the home office, moved on to the laundry room, the utility room, then the guest bedroom, and finished up with the kitchen.

When the guys took their lunch break, I offered them some “Black Diamond” watermelon I had gotten while on my road trip. (It seems this old-fella came into the service station/food mart, gave them about 50 watermelons and told them to just give them away. I took two and gave one to Gary Hames, owner of Concrete Colors, Inc.

By 12:30 PM all the welders work was done until our contractor, Gary Baize, comes back. That should be Thursday or Friday.

About 3:15 pm Charles drove in with his supplies in-tow. He said he'd be back tomorrow with his back-hoe to cut the 5' deep ditch for the high voltage(40,000 volts) cable.