The crew who has been finishing drywall all week has been dubbed the Ohio 7 by the caretaker of the lady they are working for. Here they are all together:
Dave (McGuire) and I got the cabinets done in the Cure's kitchen and Dave (Adair) put together the sink. Mrs. Cure got us Pizza and lemon meringue pie for lunch and had a bowl of chocolate waiting for us on the counter this morning. Jared joined me today and replaced the flood damaged front door. That gave the face of the house the done look. By that I mean, even though the interior is nearly ready for them to move in, the outside still looked like any other flooded house till the door was replaced.
I'm so excited about this project. If we can get some plumbing done by a pro (2 hr. max) we'll have them back in their home by the end of the week. Even with all the work going on, they'll be one of the first in the area and appear to be the first in their neighborhood to move out of their FEMA trailer and back into their home.
Chalmette Church of Christ is very near so I stopped by this evening. With the exception of one strip, the tar paper we put on as siding last January is still holding. Looks like we need to schedule a special crew to come down and put some siding on.
The inside though is finished and in service! Was impressed to see it all done with pews installed. May have to stop by there Sunday morning.
I have a few pics from last night that I couldn't get then. This one is Jackson square on a rainy evening. Fortunately it mostly held off for our walkabout.
Wanna really have some fun out with a group? Order a dozen raw oysters and egg people who've never tried them to do so. We had 5 newbies take the plunge last night, though Erin probably won't again ;-)
There are 420 kids here from Jonesboro Arkansas area for a service conference (best way I can think to put that. We have a record for this facility with them here with over 500 volunteers at one time. The shower trailers, though cold, have helped and there are people sleeping in the common room and some rooms downstairs which have tarps up over the studs. This is most of them, at Tim Hine's morning devo today:
Today was the kind of day we hope to have here. 70 something with beautiful weather, the last forecast for our stay. By the time we drove from St. Bernard back up to Chalmette this evening, the fog had rolled in and the wind is picking up and gusty. Stormy weather is forecast the next couple days.
We're leaving Sunday afternoon and staying at Homewood Church of Christ in Birmingham for New Years eve. We'll be back Monday evening for the kids to go back to school, but Tuesday I'll be sleeping in ;-)
More tomorrow night and I hope to have postings from our volunteers. Just have to set with them long enough to get the writeup done.
John
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