Louisiana 4 - Wednesday

We arrived at Ferry Place at a little after seven this morning and got to work unloading the equipment trailers and setting up our work areas. We are working on two houses which are next door to each other. At the first one the first assignment was to fabricate the window and door systems. At the second house they were at work installing the floor joists.

Meanwhile the cutting shop was in full force.



The day was quite productive, but it was all “on the ground” so to speak, getting all the different components ready for the “raising.” If all goes well tomorrow should produce some dramatic visual changes. Let’s hope so!





For the third day in a row Trinity Episcopal Church supplied our lunches. They have been providing lunches to volunteer groups five days a week since October 2005. Normally they serve Rhino groups once during their stay, but luckily for us, their scheduled groups have canceled and we are the beneficiaries. As you can see, Richhie likes the idea!




Here's a window "in process" and "finished."





At the end of the day, as clean up time came, the Cowboy Preacher with his super squirter showed up to cool things down!



Dinner tonight was jambalaya. And it was delicious.

Now a word from Emily. . .

After returning last night from dinner we took a group trip to Walmart to pick up all of the things that we had left behind. We rushed home and started an extremely crazy game of monopoly on our brand new Disney and Pixar monopoly board that we bought at Walmart. Tired from a long day’s work, most of us headed to bed pretty early.

This morning upon another 5:30 wake up call, we got our things together and headed back to the worksite for our second day with Habitat for Humanity. On the first house we continued to cut and fit wood to specific dimensions and even began building the walls of the house. On the other house, we began putting up joists in preparation for fitting the floor boards. All in all, it was a very intense day with the heat and the increase in work load, however, actually seeing the production of all our labor provided all the more satisfaction.

As for now, we’ll probably play another game of monopoly.

-- Emily Anderson




And a sidebar from David . . .

Let me tell you that this team is an absolute blessing! The kids are working like demons. They take care of each other. They are representing you exceedingly well and carrying on FPC Stamford’s reputation down here. AND they are a delight to be with. The laughter is almost non-stop.

Pray hard that we will be able to keep the energy going. It is dang hot!