We awoke to the ominous sound of rain drops on the pod roofs. Then the rain drops turned into a forty piece drum corps as the skies opened. Oh, no! But after 20 minutes or so, it ended and the western sky began to show hints of clearing. By the time we headed out of camp at 7:45 a.m. the sun was out and it turned into a beautiful day in the high 70s. At long last we have broken the weather jinks.
The drywall crew – Wes Mattice, Joe Soffayer, Charlie Judd, Sue Welton, Janna Bellwin, Bob Van Dyke and David (when he’s not running off to Home Depot, or some meeting, or the other work site) – made enormous progress today. The master bedroom is finished. The kitchen ceiling and soffits – finished – and the walls begun.
Mr. Washington stopped by again to survey the progress. He’s anxious for us to get his cabinets up and we keep trying to let him know that we’ll be lucky to get his walls up by week’s end. He seemed relieved to know that others would follow after us.
Later in the afternoon, his sister arrived. She was dealing with a construction crew that she had hired to do some repair work on the chimney. She also let us know that she’d be back on Friday with fried chicken for lunch. We’ll have to keep it quiet or members of the demolition team will be trying to inveigle a change into team drywall.
Though MIA when we arrived at the site, Sabrina finally made her appearance later in the day.
On the way home we took the “scenic” route through town, partially because of a traffic jam on I10 and partially so our two vans could also get to experience the Huey Long Bridge.
That route also took us by the site of the PGA’s Zurich Open that begins tomorrow. We’ll know where to find David if he suddenly disappears.
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Hi. My name is Peter Yanicky.
Upon awakening I was just happy to be dry. I could not participate much in breakfast prep (because I cannot cook); clean-up was my early-day accomplishment.
Work started slow for me and everyone else. After lunch I found my project and worked at it: disassembling the back room of our assigned house. People who organize Fish Camp are great. They make all the work on the jobs possible. All is well coordinated and everyone is great to work with. I appreciate all they do here. Without them, all this activity would just be a dream. For the first time in recent years, I’m on vacation and feel this is the best way to spend vacation: helping people and accomplishing some thing permanent. Thank-you to everyone for the experience.
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Hey – Doug here. What an exciting day!
We went over the Huey Long bridge expecting to possibly finish the house we’re working on (we didn’t). The main task for the day was to knock out one of the ceilings and get rid of the really-moldy insulation in the attic space above.
Mike Nauman and Frank Matsuda were our “astronauts” today. They looked like spacemen with their Tyvek® suits; they had to climb in the attic to kick ceiling out. It was quite dusty and messy.
Luckily we had Elaine “Elaine-o-lux” Best with the broom today.
She was on the job and there was no dirt particle that was safe. She helped clean up what was on the floor after Mike and Frank kicked out the ceiling.
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It’s true – Mr. Doody didn’t believe Mr. Van Dyke about how hard those plaster ceilings were going to be. At lunchtime, he confessed that he was now a believer!
Tomorrow is our half day of work and trip to the French Quarter for dinner. So that means that we get to leave camp at 7 a.m. Early call tomorrow.
Keep up that praying. It’s keeping us going!
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