Where does the time go……Thursday is already here and it feels like we just got here! Much has been accomplished by our little team in that time, though. Today, Bob and Laura returned to put the final coat of poly on two of the three houses we have been working in this week. We also painted the railings on the porches of one of those houses.

Rick took Don, Jim and Chris and most of the other team that is here from Richmond, north of Port Sulphur to frame the floor for a new house that is just getting started. It’s in a little marsh community called Lake Hermitage and is right on a little canal that looks like something right out of the movies…..Spanish moss hanging from the trees, canopy of trees over the canal…..all that’s missing are the alligators swimming by! We’ll keep watching for those! Rick took these guys there and expected to be there most of the day in order to finish what he wanted done. They were done before lunchtime! The whole team will return there tomorrow to start framing walls for the house.

Tonight is our night off and we’ll be traveling north to New Orleans for the evening. We’ll walk through the French Quarter, have dinner at The Gumbo Shop and then finish the evening out at Café DuMonde with coffee and beignets!! Our friend, Russell Drewery is joining us for the evening. Russell is a former member of HRBC and made the first trip to Port Sulphur with us back in April of 2007. Since then, he moved to New Orleans where he works as a cameraman for one of the local news channels there. We’re always glad to see Russell again and catch up with all that is going on with him.