Team 24 Last Day in the Field

We hung and cut drywall. My favorite part was putting up the ceiling because I liked operating the jack. I helped hold up drywall while they put the screws in.
I like coming down here because it’s like a break from life. You concentrate on helping complete strangers and help them get their life back again. Then when you’re not helping you're hanging out with you new friends.

David McGuire


A bullet list of the week:
LONG drive
Women's Shelter
Jeff the general contractor
Concrete Saw 2 doors in cement block and brick!!! :-)
Removing rusty ceiling hangers
Hanging drywall
Magnetic sweeping
Floor Scraping (taking up tile)
Chiseling mortar
Installing windows
Engine hoist
Broken finger

Painting

Painting

Painting

House mucking
Oil
Drywall
Carpet
Roaches
Mice


Miss Gladys'
Hanging drywall
Drywall jack
Screw guns
Third time's the charm...

Scoping out more work for the next crew
Past St. Bernard is a whole lot of swamp...

82 year old Vietnamese budist monk and friends
rode in on the train
great food!!

Trip to the French Quarter
Cafe Du Monde
Cafe Au Lait
Beignets
Powdered Suger
Powdered Sugar
etc.
Sleeping hippies in store doorways
Hippy Puppets
Jackson Square
Margaritaville
Mississippi River

FEMA trailers
Neighborhoods by the levy still a jumble of destroyed homes and posessions
19 months
Christmas - 1 coffee shop, Easter - 8

Tony's Poboys
Gators...again

2 hours dozing in the clinic for a check of the broken finger and resulting hole...
When's Walmart going to open?
Only 1 Doctor now.
Finger should be fine in 3-4 weeks with a splint.

Devo with Joel on the guitar
Where I Saw Jesus
"You mean tomorrow's our last working day?"

Airsoft as middle school discipline/motivator ;-)

Fish fry thank you!!!

Trip to Home Depot strictly for the restroom $0
Drywall and tools - $334
Buying a Big Mack in Chalmette - Priceless

Mucking out the Red Cross office...
Irony...
19 months
Likely volunteer housing soon
More irony

Warehouse duty
Handing out... well nothing, but Chris was on duty

'Nother trip to the French Quarter
Alternatives - Watching Bat Man Begins, blogging, shower, hiding from Brendan in fear of his Airsoft gun at the sound of any diesel truck engine.
Nobody's been shot, it has yet to materialize, but sometimes the threat will keep a 13 year old in line :-)

Tomorrow
Pack
Clean
Lunch
Off to Nashville
Then home...
...to the snow....
...for Easter

Good Night!