Day 10

 After a lot of talking and planning we were excited to go up and start work. The bugs were especially bad today and we didn’t bring bug spray so that was a little bit of a downer. We started by taking a picture of all of our tools but couldn’t take anymore because sadly the phone we brought had died. We brought regular screws and extra long screws the extra long ones for screwing in one 4 x 4 to the other for the base. We brought the other regular screws to use for the planks to lay over them. We brought a level up to make sure that the platform was even and flat on both sides. We brought gloves to make sure we did not catch our hands and we had a touch on hands. And we brought one fully charge drill and a hammer! The rocks and woods we’re already up there so we didn’t have to do any of that hip lifting! Our hours that day were 8-10 then we got our vaccines and went back up at 11-2:30. 


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