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Rector's Blog
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Day 4: Friday
The jambalaya is in the pot cooking, we are in the parking lot playing (football), and the cicadas are singing their evening song.
Yesterday we finished working at the park in the morning and Mr. Jones house in the afternoon. Today we met "Buddy," a retired, older man and his wife, Jean, whose house needed outside work along the base of it. We built knee walls—a day long project and got to spend some time with him. He told us about the destruction of his house, in which he'd lived for many years: how the waters came in at 7 and a half feet (he's about 4 or 5 miles from the coast). His neighbors, who came back before he did, found fish swimming in their house. He came back home after two weeks to find everything ruined.
Slowly, church groups have come through over the past two years and helped him rebuild everything. They demolished everything inside and left just the studs. Starting from that, he has done what he can and church groups have worked hard to make him a new home. And this week for him and wife was big: they moved out of their FEMA trailer (behind their house) and into their home once again. He showed me around his house, the closet space, the new tub, the details—he's very proud of his new home and is very glad to be in it.
It was great to end our work here on this high note: icing on the cake for Buddy and Jean—in a new home with us doing some finishing work on the outside—and icing on the cake for us in the form of a one day, accomplishable project.
We worked hard and cut out by 5. The jambalaya smells great—we've got to eat!
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