They are both very friendly and excited, of course, about what's happening. We all are.Because it was cold (40's), windy, and looking like rain today everyone worked inside this huge empty soon to be factory to cut the wood and frame the walls to be taken to the home site in the next day or two. (The factory will soon be making a new type of building block from recycled paper and cement. I'll try to take a photo of their new product to post later in the week.)
Besides the wall crew a few of us wiser women went to the Habitat warehouse in town to paint trim and doors. We "wise women" did have several advantages... it wasn't as noisy; we had a flush toilet (the port-a-john didn't arrive at the other building until afternoon and although the men used the great outdoors, the women about knocked each other over in a race for the restroom at lunchtime!); it is next door to the Thrift Shop (you would LOVE it, Susan!) where we, of course, had to go to buy rags (and browse a bit...); and we were only a half block from the church that hosted us for lunch. Upper right are the buttermilk pies and the pecan pies they served for dessert. They do treat us well and between their cooking and my mother's cooking we'll be waddling off that plane when we return the end of the month.
How is Tillie doing? Wish we knew. John talked to the VW guru this morning (John didn't ask his name so we have no idea who he is except that he has Tillie), he wasn't sure when he would be able to look at her as he was "feelin' a little sickly today"....
About cats and rattlesnakes... last night at our welcome to Mason dinner, one of the Habitat board members was telling me about her 7 cats (and I thought George & Vicki had a lot of cats!). She credits her cats with keeping the rattlesnakes away from the house. Then she went on to say her husband never goes to fields without his pistol and shotgun. The rattlers she described as being 3 inches in diameter and stretching across the road (if that doesn't give you shivers I don't know what will). So I'm thinking, wow!, these must be some cats. But her theory is the pickings are slim for the snakes around the house because the cats keep the field mice population down. If it was me I think I'd adopt another dozen cats as added insurance...
