deodorant.

See, much more prompt than the last blog, although not a lot has changed. Down in Rosewood we have almost completed the two houses we marked the slab for. One of the houses has Presbyterians working on it everyday, affectionately dubbed the presbos, and we thoroughly enjoy working with them, A) because they are nice people, but B) (and be being very very important) the food. Every morning they bring in pots of coffee that we drink, for lunch they provide copious amounts of southern food (like fried chicken, potato salad, red beans and rice), and at the end of the day they send us home with left overs--cookies, fruit, chips, chicken and sandwiches. We sure are going to miss those presbos when the house is done at the end of this week. Next week we start the Greek builds, today I spent the morning marking slab again and something was just not working out we had a ton of different marks and measurements down before we got the right one, now lets hope that we remember which lines are the right ones when we put up the walls.

Just two weeks left in Baton Rouge, and then Gold 2 is moving into the woods. Actually, we have a ton of time off between the end of the project and camping in the woods. See its a five day drive back to Sacramento, and then we have about 4 days of spring break, and after that it is about a week of transition period doing paperwork and briefing for our next project, so it will be quite a while before Gold 2 goes to the woods.

Our next project is split into 2 parts, the first part is in the woods outside of Fresno. We will be working with a state park to remove invasive species and hopefully return vegetation the eco-system. The goal of the project is to provide a healthy outdoor park for residents of Fresno. While we are there we will be camping in some spiffy Ameri-tents. We will cook on a stove, and perhaps over a fire. We will be out of range for the internet for three weeks, and cell phone use will be minimal (we aren't sure about the electricity). We are also not very clear on the shower situation...pack extra deodorant.

The second part of our project is spending four weeks in Colfax, California. A large town of 1500ish, maybe less. We will be living and working at an old community center. There will be a great deal of demolition work, as some of the classrooms are unsuitable for use, and we will also we working on maintainance of the other buildings. We will be living in a building for this part of the project with computer access, but again, the shower situation is still not quite clear. I repeat deodorant.

Anyways...in the meantime I will continue to construct houses in this lovely humidity we are experiencing. Until next time...