We must say, this Habitat site is impressive. ALL of the houses in the photo were built with volunteer labor. In fact, last year they built 100 houses in this area and hope to do at least as many this year. The new owners of these homes are people displaced by either Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita - Rita actually hit this area harder than Katrina.
The house our team is working on is all the way to the end of the street on the left. Sometimes it's better to be old than young and this is one of those times. Our team was assigned the job of framing the house. The younger college team (all Canadian - 10 students from McGill U. in Montreal & 10 students from Queens College in Kingston) got to level the big dirt piles around the house just being completed. If they didn't seem to be having so much fun, we might have felt a bit sorry for them.After work, John & I went to Houma (pronounced home-a... guess keeping the u in there is just a trick to separate the locals from those who aren't). The plumbing in Rambo needed a part. Got back at 7:15. Only a couple of the other RV folks looked like they had their lights on. Guess the first day has taken its toll...
Tomorrow is Mardi Gras and a day off. Houma is having yet another parade, at least the third we know of in as many days. Its parades are reportedly second only to New Orleans. One local lady told me to go and hold up a sign saying I'm from New York & this is my first Mardi Gras and I'll come back with bags of trinkets they'll throw me. (Think I'll go disguised as a local with a beer can in a huggie - bags of trinkets we do NOT need).
