I didn't do a whole lot today. I had pumpkin cake for breakfast. I picked up a couple things from the store. I did a load of laundry so I will have clothes for this week. I was going to be going back to Luling, but that plan was changed. Jessi will go to Luling and I will go to Olive Tree to keep Megan company. She has ten volunteers this week. And since Colleen left, she's the only one there. I reminded Leslie of how easily I get lost, so me driving around New Orleans was not such a great idea, but she solved that by having me ride with Megan to the worksites. So I guess that will be that.
This evening I went to see the movie Australia. It was very good. There were a couple rather cliche/predictable parts, but it was a good movie. While I was in the movie, Megan called to see when I was getting to Olive Tree. She called Jesse and Leslie to see if either of them had heard from/seen me. They both called me. Everyone was getting really worried. I called them all back after I got out of the movie. I explained I had been under the impression I was supposed to go to OT in the morning, so I had gone to a movie tonight. Everyone was very glad I wasn't driving around lost.
30 November 2008
29 November 2008
Gumbo Shop
We ate breakfast at Waffle House. Leah and I shared a plate of hash browns and eggs over easy and a strawberry waffle. It was good. Then we drove to New Orleans. We drove past Olive Tree, but Megan wasn't there so it was locked. Then we drove down to the French Quarter and wandered around there. We ate lunch at the Gumbo Shop. It was sooooooo good. I had a shrimp po-boy, but mum and dad's food were even better. Mum had gumbo and dad got a combo plate that had red beans and rice, jambalaya, and something else that I can't remember, but was delicious. Then we went to Cafe Du Monde for beignets. Then we came home. Buddy was home, so they got to meet him. Then they headed back to the hotel and I headed for bed. : )
28 November 2008
Nice, Lazy Day
Woke up. Took a shower. Folks came over 'bout the time I got out. Hung in the trailer for a bit. Mum and I worked on the puzzle. Dad disappeared to the kitchen to make a belated birthday cake. Taylor and Leah opened every single cabinet in the trailer. We went to the dining tent and played taboo for a little while. Had lunch at Lookout 49, then came back and had cake. Frank had cake with us. Then the girls and I chased Joe around for a while. We drove past a couple of the worksites and then hung at the hotel for a little bit playing cards. We went to dinner at Catfish Charlie's.
27 November 2008
Thanksgiving
I slept in a little today. Then I worked on the puzzle some more. It's nearly finished. I gave my folks a tour of the village. Then we drove to the coast and walked along the shore for a bit. We drove to Pearlington and had dinner with Jessie and Mike and the volunteers there. It was very good. The pies were fantastic. The gnats on the other hand were terrible. And they bite. During dinner one of the volunteers was talking about this little dog he'd seen and how it reminded him of Peter Sellers. My whole family immediately cracked up because we knew what he was talking about. ("Does your dog bite?"...) He said he was glad we got it because most people didn't catch the reference. After dinner we came home. Today has been pretty good.
26 November 2008
Double Traffic
I left Houma around 8 and got here about 10. There was no traffic. Worked for me. : )
I figured out how to use the cruise control on my truck. Very nice to know. My leg muscles were too tired today to hold the gas pedal down for 2 hours. My arms are a tad sore too. And my back is really sore. But oh well. I would rather be productive and sore than wandering around camp aimlessly.
I did not do a whole lot today. I straightened up my trailer a little bit and I've gotten a lot done on the puzzle. I'm waiting for my folks to get in. They got stuck in Baton Rouge traffic and New Orleans traffic. Bummer.
Here is what the puzzle is supposed to look like:
And here is what we've done so far:
I figured out how to use the cruise control on my truck. Very nice to know. My leg muscles were too tired today to hold the gas pedal down for 2 hours. My arms are a tad sore too. And my back is really sore. But oh well. I would rather be productive and sore than wandering around camp aimlessly.
I did not do a whole lot today. I straightened up my trailer a little bit and I've gotten a lot done on the puzzle. I'm waiting for my folks to get in. They got stuck in Baton Rouge traffic and New Orleans traffic. Bummer.
Here is what the puzzle is supposed to look like:
And here is what we've done so far:
Catch Up
Sorry it took me a while to get the posts up for the last three days. Houma (where we were sleeping) doesn't have wireless. They have little cards that plug into your computer. Except they don't fit my computer. So I had no internet for a couple days. So now you will just get to read several days at once. Lucky you! : )
Today was longer than yesterday. I'm sooo tired right now. We left here just before 8 so we were already working by 9. We got the last nine pods down. We took apart the duct work so it was in small enough sections it can be moved to Texas. We folded and wrapped all the cots that were in the dining tent. There were quite a lot of them. Then we picked up a lot of the rivet and button pieces. We didn't get all of them, but I think it's fair to say we got most of them. We left Luling around 4:30. No rain today. It was cool and sunny. Perfect weather for taking down pods!
Also, there were two women and eight children running around today (well, the kids were running around). They are on their way to Texas and the church let them park their rv their overnight. They gave us some fresh apples that were absolutely delicious! They left around 2. I think I will be coming back on Monday, but I have to talk to Leslie about that first. I don't know why I wouldn't, but I have to get the official go ahead anyway. Now we're going to make dinner. Which is mostly heating food up. We're going to have gumbo and biscuits and assorted veggies. And I am so looking forward to it. I am starving.
Dinner was good. It was just the four of us (me, Kyra, Wilf, and Mary) again, but it was nice. I really do like working and hanging out with them. They're a lot of fun. Apparently Megan is coming down tonight so she can help with the roof project (15 roofs in 5 days) but we haven't heard from her yet. She was planning on staying in a pod, but Kyra said she could stay in her trailer with us. (She calls me roomie now. It's funny.)
Today Kyra was talking about her allergy to peanuts (she is deathly allergic, like if the person next to her is eating peanut butter, she'll break out and if she touches it, she goes into anaphylactic shock) and she said one time some volunteers made peanut butter cookies and she was cleaning up and she picked them up before she realized they were peanut butter, so she went back to the trailer and gave herself two epi pens and went to bed. In the morning the guy who was sharing her trailer ("I slept on one end and he slept on the other. We were in the middle of a disaster, nobody cared then. That was before all this sexual harassment stuff.") woke her up asking (very loudly...) what the hell had happened. She said she woke up and said "What? Morning? We going to Sams?" She said there was also a time when she had gone for a couple days and while she was gone some volunteers anointed everything in the camp with peanut oil and the village manager was running around behind them saying "No! Stop it! You're going to kill Kyra!"
Megan arrived. And realized she brought her left sneaker and right black shoe. We laughed about that for a while. She's wearing them tomorrow just so she can be the story of the day.
Today was longer than yesterday. I'm sooo tired right now. We left here just before 8 so we were already working by 9. We got the last nine pods down. We took apart the duct work so it was in small enough sections it can be moved to Texas. We folded and wrapped all the cots that were in the dining tent. There were quite a lot of them. Then we picked up a lot of the rivet and button pieces. We didn't get all of them, but I think it's fair to say we got most of them. We left Luling around 4:30. No rain today. It was cool and sunny. Perfect weather for taking down pods!
Also, there were two women and eight children running around today (well, the kids were running around). They are on their way to Texas and the church let them park their rv their overnight. They gave us some fresh apples that were absolutely delicious! They left around 2. I think I will be coming back on Monday, but I have to talk to Leslie about that first. I don't know why I wouldn't, but I have to get the official go ahead anyway. Now we're going to make dinner. Which is mostly heating food up. We're going to have gumbo and biscuits and assorted veggies. And I am so looking forward to it. I am starving.
Dinner was good. It was just the four of us (me, Kyra, Wilf, and Mary) again, but it was nice. I really do like working and hanging out with them. They're a lot of fun. Apparently Megan is coming down tonight so she can help with the roof project (15 roofs in 5 days) but we haven't heard from her yet. She was planning on staying in a pod, but Kyra said she could stay in her trailer with us. (She calls me roomie now. It's funny.)
Today Kyra was talking about her allergy to peanuts (she is deathly allergic, like if the person next to her is eating peanut butter, she'll break out and if she touches it, she goes into anaphylactic shock) and she said one time some volunteers made peanut butter cookies and she was cleaning up and she picked them up before she realized they were peanut butter, so she went back to the trailer and gave herself two epi pens and went to bed. In the morning the guy who was sharing her trailer ("I slept on one end and he slept on the other. We were in the middle of a disaster, nobody cared then. That was before all this sexual harassment stuff.") woke her up asking (very loudly...) what the hell had happened. She said she woke up and said "What? Morning? We going to Sams?" She said there was also a time when she had gone for a couple days and while she was gone some volunteers anointed everything in the camp with peanut oil and the village manager was running around behind them saying "No! Stop it! You're going to kill Kyra!"
Megan arrived. And realized she brought her left sneaker and right black shoe. We laughed about that for a while. She's wearing them tomorrow just so she can be the story of the day.
Rain and Pods
Today feels rather long, but I suppose it wasn't really. We left here at 8, got to Luling around 9 and were ready to work about 9:30. We got 9 pods taken down. It was a little more difficult than Friday because 1) we had less people and 2) whoever put the pods up riveted everything. Also, they attached the stands for the duct work to the base of the pods. So these pods took a lot longer to take apart. We had a lunch break around 1:30 and quit for the day about 3. So we got a good 6 hours in despite the rain. It drizzled on us some after lunch, but it didn't pour until we were on the road. So that was good timing. There were two older gentlemen (I'm pretty sure their names are Sam and Dennis) from the church there that helped us.
It took us quite a while to get home because there were two wrecks. One of them was really bad. A big semi type truck rolled over. When we got back I took a shower in the shower trailer. The light wasn't working, but I left the door open and I could see fine and the water was nice and warm. I found out later the light does work, but you have to pull the switch inside, not the one right by the door. Oh well.
Kyra and Wilf just ran to the store to pick up frozen pizzas for us to throw in the oven for dinner. Kyra is awesome. She's a kid at heart. She told me she's a therapist mostly for the kids (teenagers) that others have given up on and they love her because she's like them. Most of them have told her they'll quit seeing her when she grows up.
It took us quite a while to get home because there were two wrecks. One of them was really bad. A big semi type truck rolled over. When we got back I took a shower in the shower trailer. The light wasn't working, but I left the door open and I could see fine and the water was nice and warm. I found out later the light does work, but you have to pull the switch inside, not the one right by the door. Oh well.
Kyra and Wilf just ran to the store to pick up frozen pizzas for us to throw in the oven for dinner. Kyra is awesome. She's a kid at heart. She told me she's a therapist mostly for the kids (teenagers) that others have given up on and they love her because she's like them. Most of them have told her they'll quit seeing her when she grows up.
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