Thursday's report:

Plumbing rough in was started by Jeff Bartlett today.

Matt and crew did a lot of the downstairs framing. I only changed the plan twice on them. Oops, one more tonight... this morning that is.

Friday we get DSL and phone lines in.

Friday the sheet rock arrives and Saturday morning the sheet rock crew starts upstairs. We are not asking for volunteers for the sheet rock. We have hired a professional crew to do the whole job. It will cost us more than if we had volunteers do it, but it will be done in days. Right now, time is of the essence. We want to open again as soon as possible.

The cement blocks that were blocking the two drive in doors have been removed and today they poured cement to fill in the holes. It should be set in a day or two.

Mike suggested today that many members will want to know when we will be up and running again. Right now, all I can say is that we will do it as quickly as possible. Our original schedule was for the framing and wiring to be done last week, the sheet rock this week and put in machines next week, taking us right up to the end of the month with March 1 as a soft opening, meaning we would have some machines up and running.

I think we will fall a little behind that schedule, but not too much. I will try to keep you posted as much as possible. Keep looking here for the current schedule.

We will be needing to paint our new walls once the sheet rock guys finish putting them up. this should happen before the equipment goes in. What does anyone think of letting different groups decide and paint each room as they see fit? A few people that use each room a lot might want something to say about how it is finished out. Any comments on that idea? We can always decide on one color to paint all the walls if you think that would look better too. I'm open to all ideas.

Thanks,

Scott