It's Shed Time

Today I went along with Team Shed.

Together we framed the walls and started putting up the roofing. I, however, helped shovel sand to walk on around the shed(since it's really wet land), kept the fires going(to help keep the bitting gnats away), held ladders with people hammering on them, sang along to the country radio, and helped the neighbors down the street shovel some black sand around their yard.

the most interesting part of the day was shoveling the sand in the neighbor's yard. They told us how the town was dependent on church groups for the first month after katrina. They said Perlington really didn't receive as much attention as other larger towns around them(ex: Waveland). they lived in their tents during the day and went south west to Covington to stay with a brother who had a generator, food, and plenty of other guests.

When they did get their FEMA trailer, inspectors came by every other day to check alarms and gas and other things. The husband claimed it was a big waist of money paying them to come out and do unecessary checks. The wife was happy to offer us "cokes"(wasn't quite the real thing, but still very much appreciated). I'm glad they let us help them... I had to say please.