ok - i admit it - i'm tired

day one and we survived.  i see most of the teams are back and many of us have taken our showers and look and smell a whole lot better.

my house was a 5 room house.  we patched and sanded drywall and then we textured the walls and ceiling.  i have never done that before and i must admit i have still not "done" it but i helped keeping the air compressor hose out of the way, filling the hopper with more of the texturizing stuff, and scraped the "goobers" off of the floor.  i have to give the A++  superman award to our guy Steve DeAtley.  he did all the work - holding that heavy hopper and spraying the walls.  now - there were two people who followed after him and "knocked down" the spray stuff to actually make the walls look like an orange peel, hence the name "an orange peel finish".  we also had one person working a room ahead of us doing almost all of the drywall patching and sanding.  it was work.

they told us that our homeowner was a cranky guy but i didn't find that at all.  malcom is a really nice man.  he is 61 and has been living in a FEMA trailer for 4 1/2 years now.  he is so anxious to just get back into his house.  he told me that he spent 4 days in the convention center and saw all types of ugliness.  he had tears in his eyes when he was talking even this far out.  how sad.

the weather here is beautiful.  probably in the mid-sixties.  sorry to tell you that but it sure felt good.  we sat outside in the sun for lunch in tee-shirts.  you really have to take advantage of the good weather while you are here.

we are going to eat in a few minutes and i want to upload some pictures so i will sign off  now.

please pray for us.  tomorrow will be a very tough day for most of us because we have disturbed muscles that have laid dormant for years.  we will be a limping, hurting bunch.

we love you all