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| On Washington Street, there is a Unitarian / Universalist congregation, FUUSA. It is pretty large and healthy. Above are pictures of their meeting house (they are a society, not a church). They have an older sanctuary as well as a larger multi-purpose meeting room further back (both are shown above). Here is the rear of their sanctuary and below is the front of the sanctuary and the larger multi-purpose room. Most Sunday mornings they meet in the larger multi-purpose room. They also have a meditation group that meets before the regular services. Once a month the are 'Universal Dances for Peace' (Sufi style dances) also held in smaller room. Their dance group had about 20 people the time I joined and seems to be active and growing. |
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| The Albany Habitat for Humanity Affiliate is working on a third home which is further along, dry wall was done and we were sanding the taping and 'mud'. It was done by contractors and some was very good and some was pretty poor (like it was done by new volunteers, but they suggested it was apprentices). Above is Dick. Here is Rick (as if you would ever recognize him from the picture). Rick is a retired psychologist. |
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| Emmet Street is just off of N. Pearl and just a block or so away from the Affiliate's offices and the other build on N. Pearl. There are several Habitat Houses on Emmet, shown above (about seven altogether). The most interesting house built by Habitat is Al's house, shown above and here, built before he worked for Habitat. |
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| There is a rush to finish up the N. Pearl and Emmet Street houses as there is bonus funding if they are finished in the next month. At N. Pearl we finished up the siding, all that was left was on the front. This time Jim, Dick and Frank worked on the scaffolding while I cut pieces inside and passed them out the window. I found the vinyl snips in the truck and they worked great (cut straight unlike tin snips which tend to curve). As N. Pearl has the SIPS (structural insulation panels) roof, it has a really clean attic crawl space, no rafters or insulation and cleaner as there is no venting. Above is a picture from the window of Jim putting up a piece of siding and here is a picture of Jim and Dick working on a long piece where I cut out a section for the other window. |
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| Next week we were putting down the floor at Emmet Street upstairs. Here is a picture of Dick and Jim putting in the last section in the master bedroom. The floor looks real nice, but is basically a layer of shiny plastic with a backing of foam. On top you fit together the pieces of flooring which are really just fiberboard (made from the same stuff as corrugated cardboard) with a stiffener (glue/epoxy) and a pretty plastic laminate on the top. It becomes one large piece which sort of floats on the foam. It looks nice and is cheap and easy to care for. What to say. |
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This page was last updated on October 28, 2009.
