The work begins

At left: Steve Raleigh works on a project for his homeowner that involved finishing Tyvek on the under side of a home that had been jacked up about 4 feet from its original elevation. Above: A flurry of activity Monday morning takes place in front of the Dulac Community Center as the crews unload and reorganize tools and supplies. In the background you can see Clanton Chapel United Methodist Church.

Donna S. writes:

After a morning spent getting organized, scouting the houses and dividing up workers into smaller work crews in order to make the most efficient use of our time, the teams fanned out after lunchtime to tackle projects at 15 different homes.

That's 15 different homes with work to do and most of them with multiple things to do.

Most of them are not far at all from the Dulac Community Center. Work ranged from hanging drywall, installing cabinets and counters, laying laminate flooring, building a deck, framing, measuring for siding, removed bathroom flooring, hanging paneling, roofing, cleaning vinyl siding, and so on. There's a lot of work to do, but once we got going we got a great start at building relationships with the 15 homeowners, not to mention making some improvements in their lives (we hope).

All the talk today is about tomorrow. Tomorrow is a holiday here... Mardi Gras! The kids are out of school. There are parades all day in Houma. They're excited and the atmosphere is festive. The talk among them is about going up to Houma to spend the day .

We will be spending the day trying to cross off items on the long list of things to do!

Maybe somebody will bring us some beads from Houma.