Multi-block Day Two

Today was another great day! It's cold, but not too cold. Had to use the "Hoties" in my gloves and boots because my finger tips and toes got so cold they hurt. Those things work better than a hot potato. The wall is starting to look like a wall and the totum spires are getting put up. You will see a picture of a block in the slide show, notice the cracks. Those cracks weren't there when we chose the block. I don't know the dynamics of why the ice is so brittle, but I know that it is! I finished my first of 5 dog sculptures and started the second. JQ blocked this one for me to save time. We are a good team, working together well with just enough humor to keep it fun and to destress. RQ slipped on an extension cord today and had a small package of oranage juice in his pocket. The only thing that got hurt was the OJ package. The OJ ran down the outside of his snow suit onto the snow and it looked like you know what when you were rather dehydrated. We had such a good laugh. The Remarkable Kindness of a Volunteer Award for today goes to a gentleman that gave us pink hockey tape to put on the ends of the grinders. He and I had talked about my painting my tools pink so the guys wouldn't steel them. When JQ asked him for some tape, he smiled and gave him pink, just for me.




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Multi-Block Day One

We are off to a great start. Not quite as far along as we hoped, but the ice is fracturing. We had to scrap a block, but can request one replacement. The second block we set-up in the same place fractured on a diagonal. This piece is the bottom 6 feet of a 12 foot totum. If we stacked the second block on top of it, it could all slide off down the slope of the fracture line. We salvaged enough ice from one of the blocks to make two dogs. I'm on that! JQ was going to block for me, but he is needed on the longhouse wall, so I did it myself. I need to go to sleep now, I am really beat! Good night. Donna



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