We moved to Camp Victor last week. Camp Victor is another volunteer camp located in Ocean Springs. We moved everything from Yankee Stadium over, with the exception of the huge pool table that we were unable to lift up into the truck. The rest of the week we were at the trace (our project site) working on a new house. Our site supervisors are Brad and Aaron. We are supposed to have the house ready for the subcontractors by tomorrow, but that may not happen.
We are literally building this house form the ground up. Last Thursday and Friday we made and put up walls. I've learned so much about construction. I now know what wall leads, hurricane straps, x's, xbx, and jk all mean. Then on Saturday we put up plywood sheeting. Sunday was our day off and we were back on Monday continuing our plywood sheeting and today we started to put trusses up and built a porch. There's lots to be done, but all we can do is work as fast as is safe.
On Thanksgiving, the 7 of us who are staying are working at a church distributing meals to anyone who comes. Supposedly this church has been doing this for an number of years. Since we are volunteering from 11-4, we will eat Thanksgiving dinner at the church. I'm looking forward to the long weekend. I think we may go to a mall or to the movies. Regardless of what we do, it will be nice to not have to put my steel-toed boots on and to sit down and relax.
Happy early turkey day,
Catherine
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Catherine!! I'm so glad I found your link on Scott's page, I hope you're doing fantastic and that you service over Thanksgiving went well!
happy holidays,
--walker
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