1) Have a guy coming to give us hot water. We have an interesting contraption in the house that allows us to pick up a stronger wireless internet signal. It is basically a tin can mounted on top of a tripod with a USB cord. The guy who was coming for the water walks in and says "Its a good thing you aren't Muslim because if you were I would have thought you were terrorists with this thing." We were all stunned. And to top it off both his work truck and his work shirts are emblazoned with something to the effect of "In case of a nuclear war or terrorist attack the ban on prayer in school will be lifted immediately." I guess people down here are just more blatant with their convictions.
2) Today I sat and talked with a woman whose home I have been working on for a week. She told of how she and her sister and 12 other people were rescued from the side window of her home during Katrina and brought to the St. Claude Bridge and left to walk across the city to the Superdome. These kinds of stories always get me. She then talked about how she can't wait to move back into her house that her mother had owned and paid off the mortgage so that she can stop paying for the apartment she's living in and have some extra cash on hand.
3) At this woman's (Kathryn Scott) house I have been doing a lot of sheetrocking and taping. While I have been taught some of this a lot of it kind of comes naturally to me. Must be in my blood. Shocking huh?
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