How many carpenters does it take...

...to restore a Habitat home? Plenty! Three to work, and 10 to stand around and watch! Okay, not really, because there was plenty of work to go around this week -- padding out 2 x 4 s to match the original, actual 2-inch by 4-inch 2 x 4s, re-strapping the corners of 75 Town Hill so the building won't "rack," replacing headers and rotten studs, getting the kitchen area ready for cabinetry, ceiling joists for drywall -- the list goes on. Thanks, Thursday Crew -- we'll have more to do next week! Oh, yeah -- that's Maggie the dog on the right, an essential part of the Crew....

Happy Fiftieth!

Lisa Miles found a good way to celebrate her 50th birthday -- she called up some close friends and invited them to help build a home for a deserving family. So that's what Lisa (in orange shirt) and her crew did on May 20, along with the a group from Soudview School in Mount Kisco, NY -- they cleaned up the Town Hill restoration site, previously a dangerous mess. The two crews -- some 30 strong -- worked so well and quickly they had completed all available work by lunchtime...but went home happy, knowing they'd contributed substantially to an important community project

Saturday was a day of surprises...

...starting off with more than 30 volunteers showing up ready to work. Some of us prepped an upstairs room in the (relatively) modern addition to this 1880's house...and as we stripped the dated linoleum tile, we found a layer of newspaper that must have been acting as insulation. The date? September 19, 1954. You never know what you'll find working on this house...