Busy Weekend

It was definitely a busy weekend! It started with me and my buds Lana and Jen going to Kona Grill for some pizza and to see The Women. The movie wasn't that good so I felt bad because I chose it. Saturday was busy with working on the patio, LSU football and Logan's first time representing Cub Scouts by selling popcorn at the Walmart in P'ville. Today was church, lunch, and then working some more on the patio. We now have the concrete around the edges to keep the brick in place. So, the patio itself is done, we just now have to fix the yard. That could take a while. The boys had friends over today and unfortunately, the upstairs looked like a tornado had come through. Bed sheets and covers off the bed, toys strewn EVERYWHERE, etc. N and L were mad at us because we made them clean it up. Hopefully next time they won't let it get to that point. Anyway, kiddos are in bed and I'm ready to settle in with a book. Nite all!

Jamie Foster actually came by so she kindly purchased some popcorn from Logan.

Lance's boss gave us his tickets on the 30 yd. line so we gave ours to some friends. Nice view!

Another Listing Website

I have just relisted this house in my neighborhood in Prairieville. It's a great house and it's priced to sell. If you or anyone you know is interested in being my neighbor let me know! The property has a website you can visit. It's www.38113JeffersonCrossing.com. Pass this info along to your friends as well!

Property Listing Website

Please take a few minutes and check out the website for my listing in Broadmoor subdivision. The web address is www.445NParkview.com. If you or anyone you know is looking to move and you think they would be interested, please let them know about this listing. Thanks!

New Discovery

Well, after the big rain on Sunday we have noticed that we some pretty good leaks. We have a tarp on the dormar, but evidently it wasn't enough to keep out the rain. Here are some photos.

It's kind of hard to tell how the roof is missing, but you can see that some of the shingles are missing.

This is upstairs in the playroom on the wall by where the roof is messed up.

It has evidently leaked down into the garage. Not good.

Here is more of the garage ceiling. You probably can't tell, but water has collected in the light fixture. That can't be safe, right?

More Serving

I forgot to blog about my most recent serving day at HPC. It was kind of a crazy weekend. They cancelled school on Friday (cause it was so windy?) and we really didn't get any rain except during the early morning hours. We weren't able to serve on Friday due to the possible bad weather. However, we served on Thursday with a great group. We met a lady named Ginger and she came down from Seattle just to help with recovery down here after Gustav. She owns a restaurant up there and she does a lot of work with recovery efforts during emergency situations. It was cool talking to her and hearing her stories.

From left to right: Jennifer, me, Ginger from Seattle, and Cindy

Here we are, busy at work.

Serving it Up!

The youngins went back to school today so I decided it was high time I helped serve. I went to the Highland campus around 9:00 a.m. and was pretty much assigned to helping put together lunch plates for delivery. I don't know that I've really ever volunteered to serve in a situation like we are in right now so I didn't really know what to expect. Anyone that knows me, knows that I'm not one to hang out outside and be all hot and sweaty. However, once we got started I found that I was actually enjoying myself. We had a great system going. I was the official "black-eyed peas and rice scooper". Goodness, how many lunch plates did we even put together? Hundreds! Not exactly sure how many. Our HPC Cooking for Christ team is great to work with!

After we were finished with the lunches some of us still had some time left before we had to leave to Mrs. Ann Morrow gave us another assignment: taking inventory of an 18-wheeler truck that had brought some supplies. On the way to the truck I realized just how hot it was outside and wished the 18-wheeler we would be in had a generator and a/c unit. Imagine my excitement when we walked up to the truck only to realize it was a refrigerated truck carrying fruits and vegetables! The Lord works in mysterious ways!

It really felt good to help out today, so I am hoping to go back tomorrow and do it all again!

Beef Stroganoff and Black-Eyed Peas served up by me, Cindy, DeLin, and Jennifer


Taking a lunch break to enjoy the great meal cooked up by Cooking for Christ.

This was the refrigerated truck that we worked in to take inventory. Lots of fruits and veggies!

Hurricane Gustav

What a week this has been! You always think that tragedies and disasters can't happen to you. Gustav hit on Monday with a vengence! Thankfully, the only damage that was done to our house was a couple of small crepe myrtles are leaning over quite a bit and the copper roofing on our dormar window upstairs blew off along with some shingles. We did lose power on Monday around 10:00 a.m. It finally came back on sometime Friday afternoon! We were so grateful! We were blessed to be able to stay with Mike and Cindy Ragsdale Monday night because they had the generator setup. We found out Tuesday morning that my brother-in-law had power so we ended up staying with him for two nights. We decided it was time to come home, clean out the fridge, try to get some order back in our house. We managed to find a generator at Home Depot and an a/c unit at Gorman's. We froze during the night Thursday night and then we got our power back on Friday. Here are a few pictures of this week:

It's hard to tell how hard the wind is blowing in a still photo. This is a tree behind our backyard.

Lance is putting the copper roof on the side of our house after it came off during the storm.

This is in the Broadmoor subdivision. Compare the size of the car to the tree's root system.

I'd gladly lose a few shingles compared to this. This is also in Broadmoor.