SOWER: Day 3

It's getting hotter in southeastern Kentucky. But who's complaining after the spring we've had? The temperature reached the mid-80s today and is forecast to hit 91 Wednesday. Beautiful weather for getting the floor of Wilma Mays' home covered with sheets of tongue-in-groove plywood and the deck boards down on about a third of her front porch. We also framed the 28-foot back wall of the house and will raise it first thing Wednesday morning. God has blessed us with great relationships on our 16-member team that has brought together servants from four different Ohio churches. Some of our members also had a chance today to "sit a spell," as they say down here, and visit with next-door-neighbor Jerry, a relative of Wilma's who has been kind enough to let us run an extension cord from his house to our work site. Other than that, the only power we have on site is what we're running from a gasoline-powered generator. The "power pole" that was supposed to have been installed by the electric company has not been so far, which forced us to buy 5 extra gallons of gasoline before we left I-75 on Sunday to venture 25 miles east into the mountains. So far, though, so good.