Monday, December 3:  Friday's work consisted of vacuuming up water from the floors.
This morning, crews were back on the job, installing vapor barrier on the front wall below the porch floor.  The roof trusses may be in this week.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4:  The roof trusses have arrived, and are in Acadamy Street, which has been blocked for the time being.  No crane has arrived.  Workers were attaching waterproofing to the front walls below the roof line and tamping the dirt in the front of the porch area.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 8:00 AM.  The sky is overcast, a fairly typical winter day for south Alabama but not quite as dreary as the pictures may indicate.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6: There were about six trusses not set yesterday, but by 8:15 this morning, all had been set and the crane operators were picking up their toys and preparing to return to Dothan. There are two place where no roof framing is in place: at the transition from the east-west main structure to the connecting corridor, and over the south wing, with its rounded end.  These places will require construction of the roof support on site.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7:  By noon, the deck has been laid on all of the trusses, tarpaper had been attached to the decking, and crews were working on framing of the transition from the corridor  to the main east-west roof structure.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8:  The building is dried in! (Except for the kitchen, which has metal deck but no roofing material.) The rounded portion of the building on the south wing has a flat roof with wood decking, currently covered with plastic sheeting.  The gables are still open.  The truss construction reveals that the first (west) forty (or so) feet of the  hall upstairs will have a "cathedral" ceiling. There are two small areas on the south wing which, like the kitchen, have metal deck but no roof materials. The blower and air intake equipment for the kitchen hood system is on the roof of the kitchen, although not installed.  The air handling equipment for the air conditioning downstairs has been set in place in the central equipment room, and duct work for the fellowship hall unit has been attached.  The unit for the east end is so cramped that it was necessary to remove one panel screw before sliding the unit into a space adjoining the electric panel, and there is an access door in the opposite wall to allow removal of filters from an adjoining room.  The return plenum is on this unit, but the flexible connector has not been put in place.  The supply duct has not yet been extended into the room.  The kitchen hood has is in the fellowship hall.  Wiring has been installed for the feeder panels in the equipment room.  The elevator hydraulic pump and controls have been set in place in the equipment room.  The service entrance conductors have not yet been pulled into the conduits from the transformer outside.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1:00 PM:  The electric service has been made hot, althought no switches have been turned on.  Duct work in the downstairs equipment room has been connected to the air handling units. Sheet metal workers are continuing to install branch ducts in th east end of the building downstairs. Workers are installing the range hood in the kitchen.  Studs are being installed for the walls upstairs.  Windows are being installed in the upstairs north wall.  NOT MENTIONED EARLIER:  The outdoor foyer of the north entrance has been poured, as have the remaining steps in the stairwell.  Alternating steps had been filled with concrete earlier, now the remainder have been poured.  The intermediate landing has not yet been poured.  There has been more plumbing installed; the location of the water heater is now apparent.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT DECEMBER 12, AFTER CHOIR PRACTICE:  All of the upstairs studs are in place except for those framing doors.  The air conditioning indoor units for the upstairs are on the floor.  All of the windows except those fronting over the kitchen roof are in place.  The mushroom fan (hood exhaust) and air intake blower for the  range hood are set.  (In modern commercial kitchens there is an air intake blower installed in the hood system to offset air drawn out by the exhaust fan.  This keeps the exhaust from the range hood from creating a vacuum in the building).  Outside , the brickwork is rising.  The front porch void is being filled with dirt and tamped with a mechanical vibrator as each level of dirt is put in.  The porch foundation is still about six feet below the upper floor level.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, EARLY AFTERNOON:  Although the intermediate landing of the stairs has been freshly poured, the only evidence of activity on site is the electricians, who showed up in full force.  They are installing conduits on the bottom of the rafters upstairs, connecting boxes previously installed in the walls for switches and plugs.  The weather is overcast, and the masons did not appear to have worked.  The masons seem to have an aversion to working on Friday.  Some insulation has been installed in the outside wall of what appears to be an equipment room upstairs, and there is plywood which has been painted nearby.  This must be an electrical room, as it appears the conduits are heading in that direction.

LATE AFTERNOON:  The concrete worker who poured the landing, having worked until 3:30 returned to find that the concrete floor on the intermediate landing had been disturbed; had to be reworked.  He will return later to "broom" the concrete after it has had time to cure some.  All of the room-to-hall door frames have been installed downstairs.  They are Underwriters Approved fire door frames.  All doors swing into the rooms except the door from the end of the side hall in the nursery-kindergarten area.  It opens "out".

Observed but not reported earlier:  Holes have been cut in the downstairs walls for fresh air vent louvres, one above the window in the new niche formed by the crossover corridor, the south wall, and the west side of the south wing wall, the other high in the west wall of the north entrance, outside.  These appear to be 16" x 36" holes; the air conditioning return air ducts have openings facing both holes; duct work will extend from the return air  ducts to the intake openings. Also, the elevator shaft opening has been frames with doors, and the balance of the opening blocked up.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 17:  A short conversation with one of the electricians confirmed that plans are to install TV cable outlets in the classrooms.  Weather deteriorated all day to heavy rain intermixxed with drizzle by 4:00 PM  But because the building is dried in, work continues.  The electricians were busy upstairs inside,  drywall workers were installing railing to support the sheet rock.  Also, the elevator shaft openings have been framed for doors, and the balance of the openings blocked up.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, MID MORNING:  The framing of the gable end of the east wall now outlines what will be the final profile of the building.  The end will resemble somewhat the north and south walls of the previous building.  It is reminescent of what might be the Tudor era English home.  On the south side, the extension of the curved wall above the roof level is being completed.  And on the front, the porch foundation wall and the wall in front of the equipment plaza are reaching floor level.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20: By midmorning the masons are topping off the brickwork on the curved portion of the south wall.  Brickwork remaining includes most of the east wall, about half, vertically of the north wall, and the front wall from floor level up.  The West gable will probably be covered with gypsum board by noon.  This fascade will be identical to the west gable.  Inside, there is evidence of much activity by the electricians; the upstairs distribution panel is in place and has been fed with conductors from the main panel downstairs.  The conduit work evidences an artisianship not always found in commercial construction work.  Downstairs, in the equipment room, pull rope was put into the telephone service conduits several days ago.  On the north side, it appears that the remaining cables overhead along the street are ready to come down.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21: Both gables are closed; brick work continues on the north wall; on the front, the porch wall has reached floor level.  Workers were working in the south niche clearing in preparation for construction of short walls to contain the foundation of the air conditioning equipment; there is a difference in levels of the existing pads and the new floor.  Apparantly there will be three work days next week.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26:  Gypsum board is installed on the ceiling of most of the upstairs corridor from the office area to the choir suite.  Included is gypsum board walls in the attic itself berween the office suite and the rest of the attic, and between the cross-over corridor and the attic of the rest of the building.  Power is now being supplied to the upstairs lights and extension cords from the upstairs power panel, rather than from the construction site panel downstairs.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28:  Thursday, sheet metal workers began hanging the duct work in the attic.  The air handling unit will be in a room adjoining the choir suite at the east end of the hall.  There will be separate supply and return air ducts for each room.  The office will have a separate unit.  Work continues on the brick work around the porch at the front of the building.  Also noted but not reported earlier:  There is a firewall in the attic just west of the stairwell.  This divides the attic into three sections.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29:  Roofers arrived about mid-morning, according to the brick masons, who were cleaning the brick on the south side, and by shortly before four o'clock had put shingles on the south slope from the east end of the building to the valley at the connecting corridor, about one quarter of the main building.  Brick workers stated that they were cleaning the brick for the third time.  They were using a detergant, not muratic acid, which was commonly used in times past.  There were no workers present on site at 3:50.   There was one person in the sanctuary, preparing for a wedding (Saunders/Dillard).