Welcome back everyone. : )
I hope you have been enjoying this trip with us.
This will be the last entry for the trip.
Tomorrow we head home at 5:30 a.m. and should be home home by 10:30 p.m. with hopefully no more dumb speeding tickets from yours truly.
We slept in a bit this morning.
Rise and shine time was 8 a.m.
As soon as my blog comes out, Cor is ready to read it : )
Others play games
Or chill
Or do a puzzle to relax : )
Will there be enough time to finish it Jess before we leave?
A great game of chess is going on between Nathan and Brett. I forgot to ask who won.
This was the group that went to see Reatha last night. They worked on her home last year.
A nice visit was had. She remembered them and they were able to exchange addresses to keep in contact.
Back to Friday morning.
Hey, where's Tia!!!
Getting some alone time.
8 a.m. devotions.
And then breakfast - and then get ready for the day.
We had a thunderstorm last night. And some rain.
We were greeted with a foggy morning.
We lost Tia's group today. They went to Jason and Jess' place.
We were tasked with finishing pulling up the oak floor and kitchen floor and cleaning up.
Thankfully, the kitchen floor was just tongue and groove laminate, and it came up easy.
Rohan, Alex, Marika and Petra worked very hard all morning to get that floor off. I helped as well, but no pics to prove it : )
There is a lot of debris and nails that will eventually come out of the subfloor.
Break time.
It's hard work.
The homeowner also came by today to work on his portable home. He thanked us over and over again for saving him months of work.
We were happy to oblige.
And the oak floor is almost out.
Petra started to take out all the nails from the floor.
And there were A LOT of nails : ) But she just kept at it.
We vacuumed the wall joints and swept so as not to leave a huge mess.
And it's done. !!
The kitchen floor was done as well, and we took out the drywall screws and nails.
While Petra just kept on pulling nails.
After lunch we joined her.
The two bedrooms were cleaned as best as possible and ready for a contractor to put back together.
Finished de-nailing.
It took about 3 hours.
This crew worked really hard all week.
I'm proud of them.
The sad thing is that this home will probably be rebuilt with some mould still in the walls. And the walls are made out of 2 x 2's. As last year showed us, there are lots of homes that probably shouldn't be standing here because of flooding, or reflooding.
Cor and Chris' group ended their day trying to help an older man literally living in a burnt out trailer home. The did their best to help him clean up and restore some dignity to his home, but they found it very difficult.
Hard to be there, but good to be there too, as Isaiah said.
Alex has been hankering for KFC all week.
Why? Well it's in Kentucky that's why!! : )
Interesting pic.
I drove to the KFC and he ordered a two piece : )
Off his bucket list now
(no pun intended).
The group also wanted to look for ??? book at the GoodWill store. It's out of print and they were hoping it might be there. It wasn't : (
And then the final act of bravery for my group.
Cleaing the bathrooms.
They weren't really clean when we got here, and they sure weren't clean after 31 people used them for 6 days.
I'm more proud of them.
They don't complain; they just do a good job.
Isaiah is vacuuming?
Leah is scrubbing off the floors ???
This is the way we mop the house, mop the house, mop the house... : )
Looks nice.
Lunch time Isaiah?
I'm pretty sure they left it spick and span.
Cor's group finished off the flooring today
Lewis, you looked shocked that a picture was taken of you. : )
Cor found a new toy : )
Lewis was working too hard today to take more pictures : )
Claudia is doing drywall.
More dogs.
Jason and Brett are measuring for the proper drywall cuts.
Ethan found another skill.
