I spent most of the morning caulking. I'm not entirely sure how to convey the depth of history that goes underneath that statement. Let's start with the fact that in a great many volunteer construction projects, that caulking is usually given to the girl with the least experience who just says okay when someone, usually male, asks her to please do the caulking. It's oddly considered by many volunteers as "make work". It's something that's not nearly as fun or fulfilling as using power tools, putting up a wall, building actual framing for rooms, or nearly anything. It's the low man on the totem pole work. And not a lot of people jump up to do it. Then, in Biloxi, while we were trying to reconstruct an electrician's house while he volunteered, in kind, I got into Gabriel's finishing crew. Gabriel's dad was a building inspector, and, for a few years, Gabriel had done professional finishing work, and the most laborious part of it was putting i
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