Sunday, March 16, 2008

Another week has flown by and we are greatful for all the great things we have done. The work on the Habitat House went great and we were all tired by the end of the day but made it until bedtime (around 9 pm for some of us) and managed to enjoy some things other than work. Monday we went in to Thidobaux and enjoyed some Cajun music by a group of locals that get together on Monday and just play their music. I did not know much about Cajun music until now but it is mostly in French and tells a story. They tried to sing some of it in English but not too successfully. We still enjoyed it.
Linda and Jim had to leave us on Wednesday morning as they had to go to S.C. to have some work on the motorhome. We certainly missed having Linda work with us on the house and I am sure Larry and Jim #2 missed having Jim #1 around. We enjoyed meeting and working with the young people from Penn. State. I do believe the group from Boston College out worked them though.
We finished up the week by getting the front wall up on the house and the beam across the front of the house, and OSB board on two sides of the house. A group from Wisconsin will be working there next week.
Saturday morning the Settles and us headed east and drove on US 90 for a while through Gulfport and Biloxi Mississippi and oh my what a MESS. Katrina about wiped those two towns out. I remember going to Gulfport in the 60's and trust me there is nothing left that I could remember. All the older anitbellam houses are gone . We stopped for lunch in a parking lot of a Casino and a security guard talked with us and told us how Katrina just battered them for 12 hours. They have re built the Casinos on land now instead of having them on ships but it will take a long time to rebuild the "Gulf Coast". We drove on to Mobile and got settled in a nice RV Park and today we toured the USS Alabama. Peggy's step father had serviced on the ship so it was special for her. We had a great day and now tomorrow we head to Bainbridge, Georgia for a week to visit some family and then on to Canton, which is north of Atlanta to visit a cousin of mine who is having Chemo treatments . Then we will be on our way to Virginia around the last of March. We should be back in Virginia by April 1st.

MEM