Day 5 we had an early start. We were at Jordan's house at 7:30 and began working on a platform for his company boat. First, we organized all of the boards we took frrom Jordan's ex-wife's house a few days ago, separating the clean and dirty ones. The dirty ones had nails or screws sticking out of them. While Sam cut the screws off with power tools, Jackson dug a ditch running from the house to the deck for a water line for the deck. My job was to hammer the nails through the boards and pull them out on the other side. After a few hours we finished the deck, and afterward, we spent over an hour in the garage where Jordan gave us some insight on running businesses, then proceeded to show us how to tie PR knots and several others. We had an early departure, leaving at 12:30.

Time today: 5 hours

Total time: 36.5 hours




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