Friday, Sept.30, 2011

Today Tom and Liz removed the roof shingles, sheeting, and rafters from the front "triangle" of the house.  Ed and Sharon did the corner re-inforcements in the second apartment.  Karen spent most of the day helping out at St. Paul's Lutheran school.  In the afternoon the crew replaced the "joists" and sections of joists that were termite riddled.  A group next week will put up rafters, roof panels, and tar paper.  We finished packing up about 5:45.  After our showers, we ate pizza in the lounge.  It was only 84 degrees today, not humid and with a breeze.  We have to start out at 7:30 tomorrow to make our 10 AM plane. 

One note about the need to "build communities":  One of the churches has identified that because of the extensive use of "charter schools" in the area, students are not attending a neighborhood school -- and thus don't know the other kids in the neighborhood.  To address this, they are providing a community center where the kids can get together.

Pictured today is our team:  Walt (RAI construction manager), Sharon Kiellach, Ed & Karen Wright, Tom and Liz Chrzanowski in front of one of those "famous" Orphan Grain Train bedroom trailers. 

Faith Mission team to New Orleans 2011

Throughout the week we had problems with roofing nails getting stuck in our boots.  Take your footware seriously, particularly when you are on a rehab site.  Here's one that "missed":

Here's a shot of the "chicken beeks" (joists) where you can see that we spliced new lumber all across the front of the house:

It's obvious that Tom's glad to see that job done.