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Today was a shop day because of the rain. Perfect because I needed to figure out how to make the Ollivanders turrets.

Was getting a little frustrated with the cracking plywood when I tried bending  it around the structure, so I threw the parts in the pool for about and hour and that did it.

My neighbor Bill showed up today to check out what I was doing, I put him to work on Eyelops. He says he is coming back when he can, win!

Ian showed up to help today so I decided to put his creative construction skills to work.

Together we started building out some of the facades on Quality Quittich Supplies and Florish & Blotts.

James, one of my oldest and dearest friends, showed up today to help with his boy Reilly, who got to skip class today for a lesson in creative construction.

I love working with James because we know each other so well that I don’t have to explain things much with him, he gets me and how my brain works. Because of this we were able to put up nearly all the walls today.

After lunch I was looking at the weather forecast and decided that I needed to build some more structure to keep the coming wind storm from blowing the walls over. So we headed to Lowe’s and got supplies to build a sky bridge.

Worried about the wind a bit, I am going to keep the structure low for now and build it up after the incoming storms.

Friends showed up big today! We had nearly 30 show up today to help, drop off supplies or help keep the troops fed. What and inspiring community effort it was.

We had a real assembly line going with the adults and some of the older kids building the panels, while the kids were priming them.

We finished nearly 20 panels, built and painted. The first of the walls went up and the vision is becoming reality.

Today I drove to Lowe’s and filled my truck with as much plywood and lumber as it could handle, about $640 worth. This is it, I am committed now.

Also, I put out a Facebook post with a picture of my haul and asked for help putting together the 24 panels that will eventually make up the basic structure of the alley. Michael and Zoe showed up to help out, yeah my first volunteers!

I got started on the panels and got 8 of them finished and ready for paint. I am going to need some help to get all these done!

Friends are committing to help tomorrow and the weather is supposed to be amazing. Am giddy with excitement.