All of us were at 8800 Olive Street today, along with the group from Stevenson College. With so many on the site it was slow getting started as small groups received instructions and some had to wait on doing B until others finished A. This was a half work day for us as we would be touring NOLA with church guides in the afternoon.
The hammering continued along with measuring and cutting, carrying back and forth and getting up and down ladders.
The outside sheathing was finished which meant we could move on to protecting the wood by swaddling it in Tyvek. This involved more hammering, from inside and outside, from on the ground, on ladders and over the top of the wall.
We worked until lunch time and enjoyed sandwiches and chips on the porch of the Land House, the headquarters for RHINO. Four members of St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church each took a car load of us on a tour of NOLA, highlighting the areas hardest hit by Katrina and the recovery. We first viewed a graphic presentation of the area affected by Katrina. You can view this at
nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.
This evening we once again we fed by the great cooks of St. Charles Ave. Presbyterian Church. Fried catfish was the centerpiece of the meal accompanied by a salad bar, red potatoes, green beans, fruit and cake and ice cream.
