Note: you can view many of the photos from today at Robin's website and Ron's Flickr page.
I’m a little “off” today, and I don’t think I’m alone! Perhaps we’re all a little down that our time here is almost over, and we haven’t accomplished as much as we would have hoped to. Never mind that what we have accomplished is incredible. And, OH, have we had fun.
There was such a buzz throughout the house today. Until noon-ish, the center wall of the double shotgun was open, and we could hear all the noisiness of drills, saws, cordless drills, ladders scraping across the floors as workers repositioned, sheets of rock moving from room to room, being secured first to the ceilings and then the outside walls. Insulation was hung in the center wall before sheetrock began to cover it. Suddenly, we were DIVIDED teams – bummer! As one of our group observed tonight, we could no longer communicate, no longer step across and borrow a tool or help a neighbor, just as the walls go up in our everyday lives. But, it was a real home, coming back to life…
Miss Verna Mae came over today, along with her daughter Gwen and Great Granddaughter Rory. Miss Rory was three years old last Thursday, and very shy. It took several minutes and hundreds of pictures before she gave us a smile… lovely pictures of three generations of strong, proud, gentle New Orleans women… Grace Under Pressure, at least to the outside world.Tomorrow will be our last work day. We’d like to stay and finish this house, but know that we can’t. Maybe that is why many of us felt “off” today…
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