Things Have Changed

Before we go into the unsettling talk of change, lets talk about tile work! :)

 This past week was a blur of tile!  And here are some photos to show off Jeremy's work:



 He found another locker room in the basement of E Residence to tile! (I was on grouting duty on the 3rd floor)  So Jeremy and some of the crew knocked out the laundry department's mens and womens locker/shower rooms.  These showers were super tall. About 8 feet high.

 As most of you know, we returned to work immediately after our flight from Knoxville. This was Monday after lunch. That is when we learned Jeremy had overtime along with the tile guys all week. So after lunch, they returned to work until 7pm. Tile overseer, Chad, ordered up a baggie dinner for the guys to be delivered  so they could eat while working. We wives wanted to be supportive so we supplemented dinners with Mt. Dew, Little Debbie snack cakes and Goldfish (pizza flavor). There was also a mandatory Saturday workday too. Happily Jeremy didn't have to work on our Thurs meeting night.  

As you would expect, Jeremy was a tired little fellow Saturday night.  But we pushed for a good service morning before our Sunday 1pm meeting and were rewarded by finding all our return visits home and spotting these (we didn't personally spot up the fawns, they showed up that way):

This is a bit gross, but how strange we happened to see it! In case you want to know, the frog made a herculean effort and escaped the snake and the snake was finished off.





So that was LAST week.  This week I was told to report to our overseer's overseer, Saul.  He told me (along with the other two sisters on the tile crew) we have been permanently reassigned to another crew!  Oversight feels tile work will be winding down in the next two months and the crew we have been transferred over to has a little time to train us before their next deadline.  So Monday morning we met with our new overseer, Dan and began training.  Training for what?!  Installing laminate wood flooring.

So, I gave up my tile tools and have a much simpler tool bag.  It's sad not to work with Jeremy anymore but nice to learn a new trade. 

 

 So here is my first day installing laminate.  All the residence rooms have either carpet or laminate or both and the crew is really small so they seem happy to have help.  Even inexperienced help like us.  But it is easy to learn and certainly cleaner and NO MESSY BUCKETS TO WASH OUT! 

 Now I'm not sure if the overseers thought this one through because I am using table saws and miter saws and pneumatic air guns.... and someone is probably gonna get hurt somewhere down the line.....

But this is something new and exciting and likely the tile clan will be splintering off as the tile work for the E Res finishes off.  It will pick up again when other projects are getting off the ground but that could be several weeks.  Apparently it is common for crews to swap out to support other crews at times.  So it's possible Jeremy will be farmed out somewhere too. 

Time will tell.   :)    And the blog will too!