Today's progress:

- Shed #1 complete!   YIPPEE!!!!!

- Shed #2 just needs a door.

- Shed #3 needs a door and a few rows of shingles.

As you can tell , we are excited about our progress.  We continue to laugh a LOT!  Fortunately, we have learned to laugh off our construction errors ..... including things like severing the saw cord!!  You should have seen the look on Julie's face when it happened.  But even better was the look on Don's face when he saw what she had done to his saw!  (Don't tell Margaret Ann, but he may be using the incident as an excuse for a new saw!)

You never know what talents or skills you have that may be used on mission.  For instance, Jill came to PS never intending to be a math teacher.  On Monday, she learned that a student in the church high school was struggling in geometry.  She got the text book and proceeded to tutor on Tuesday.  During her time with the student, Jill demonstrated real life geometrical application on the work site -- she made the student come out and help calculate the peak at the top of the shed!!

Wednesday afternoon brought a quick rain shower.  We had to take a construction break.  Some folks were glad for the opportunity to rest.  Others took the chance to play spades.  Don & Melissa proved to be formidable opponents.  They're strategy was to make the other team think they didn't know how to play so they would go easy on them.  And it worked!!  Jill & Julie will be requesting a rematch at the first opportunity. 

Our work site has proven to be a magnet for neighbors to inquire about the sheds since we are building in the front lawn of the church.  As in previous days, we have had a handful of people stop by again today, requesting to be put on the list to receive a shed.  As you can imagine, the 16x8 FEMA trailers are quite small.  This extra storage space gives people the opportunity to have a "laundry room", store necessary equpment, or store standard household items.

We've been very impressed by the way neighbors have been very friendly.  They are always willing to stop and talk to us.  The other people on our site have been equally helpful and hospitable.

Tomorrow should bring the end of a good work week, and the completion of 3 storage sheds.  We are in hopes of being a part of delivering these sheds to their new owners.  That would be the perfect end to our project.  We also hope to catch the Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival Friday night.  We hear it's the equivalent of the county fair.  Russell promises to show us the right way to eat crawfish!

Don't forget to go the HRBC website and check out the photos or our work --- and fun!