Day 3 is warmer yet, though we awake to frost and news of the campers shivering through the night. Long days of labor and lack of sleep, not helped by return to daylight savings time, are taking their toll. Nobody asks, "Are we done yet?" But clearly pressure builds to complete all the cutting so that we can begin to assemble parts of the structure before the raising tomorrow morning. If a problem is found, it's much easier to fix now, of course, than at the playground.

Laura Brown and Japanese saw; Kevin Lanier with cadets; Rowan displays the peg he's made.

At noon and again for dinner, we're treated again to home-cooked meals prepared by the ladies of Oxford Presbyterian Church, and the ladies of Collierstown Presbyterian Church.

Assembling the center king post truss, with John Miller and Joel McCarty supervising