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As Rob flips open his phone, he says “Hey, I didn’t realize that your phone automatically changes the time to Biloxi time..”
We chuckle that he figures this out on Wednesday after we got here Sunday.
Also, something that I (Peter), didn’t realize/remember. No Tank Tops or sleeveless shirts are allowed on the work site. I had to run out to Wal-Mart and buy 3 extra T Shirts.
Rain rain go away…there’s a 60% chance of rain. Hopefully we don’t get all muddy.
This morning, we lost Dave our project foreman, and got his boss, “Bracky” for the morning. Dave had to take care of responsibilities at another site and joined us once he finished.
After Dennis and Steve joined us after lunch, Steve discovered many power tools, and if you look at the slide show.. Frank meets his match..
🙂
It was a good hard dirty hot day of work, but we all were satisfied with the work we’re doing and the reasons why. We pray for the neighborhoods we travel through, we let people know why we’re doing this, and we can’t help but be touched by the many prayers that we’re helping be a part of.
Many have prayed to help this region, many have prayed to be helped. We’re just helping out in a practical and spiritual way for this part.
Katrina Day 2 – Construction
Hopefully we’ll have some more video uploaded by tonight for you.. we’re beat and need our sleep, but want you to be involved with us! 🙂
Steve and Dennis stayed behind in the morning to do our commitment of KP.
It included washing down both our (Habitat for Humanity’s) and the Salvation Army’s Village
Steve got to use a power washer
Photos from our KP Duty
This video records the first of many times we put up this corner.
Because our blueprints were not the same as our house, we had to make several attempts at interpreting them correctly. We got good practice at it.
After our lunch, (we ran out of building materials so we had an early lunch) we were also waiting for Steve and Dennis to join us after their KP duty.
Lunchtime means eating the lunches we packed earlier today.
It’s hot. Hotter than yesterday
Hot!
Thanks to the well wishers and family members..
We’re on our way out to the job site.. which is near the corner of St. George and Waterloo in the city of Gautier…
We’ve been told to try the Po’Boys at the BP station out here..
We’re short two men for the first part. Steve and Dennis volunteered to do our commitment of KP. They, with Gary and Art, served us breakfast, but Steve and Dennis will be back doing clean up and I helping to server dinner on our return.
We’re hoping they can rejoin us at lunchtime.
After last night’s run to buy Gatorade, water and shoes for Peter, we’re good to go..
By the end of the first day, we had put up all the interior and exterior walls, secured them together to the straps in the concrete slab.
Preparing the to put the final wall in place.
Putting the final outer wall in place
We did a ton of work on Day 1
Originally we didn’t think we’d be doing any work on the walls, instead working on preparing to put down a slab…
But we were happy to find out that were going to be working on erecting walls on a nice clean slab
We’ve got a TON of pictures, and have put them in some scattered order that we hope to clean up, but right now, we’re trying to go to sleep, but wanted to share them with you.
So here’s some highlights from day 1
Some things of note:
Our walls are up, well almost. we put up the exterior walls and left one corner down for bringing in the interiors. each wall is strapped to the concrete for new hurricane codes.
Now it’s lunch time.