The Family: November 2005

This might go down in the records as the first bathroom shot in the new Mds bayou home at the mall.

Hailey spending time with Grandma E. She is now walking and it looks like she might be starting to practice her counting. How many cookies so far?

Every few picturs you get taken back to the farm. Here we have the the final unloading of the 2005 harvest. We started with 320 acres to go at 12:15 pm and 6 hrs later the soybean harvest was over. To bad that 3 trucks could keep up. Try again next year.

HI Frank this was one of those few pictures we got of you that was not blurred. You will need to learn to sit still as you get to middle age. I still think you and Karla should have been able to move a double bed. Thanks for all the pictures and the emails. We may see you in San Marcos some early spring afternoon. take care

Here we have Abe thinking about how much more fun this job is than flying those airplanes. Oh yea, remember that hemi on take off. Never full throttle if loaded. It was a good two weeks. O right, it's also better to haul water in small trucks.

This blog moves back in forth in the History of the Eidse family so this is back in the Bayou.
Here is Karla so intent on cleaning the windows she must have forgot to take of the her mask. Great job Karla. This could have changed an outlook on life. There is a real world out there.

The sweet little Miss Hailey playing with her toys shortly before the room was cleared for its 2005 makeover

A warm sunny coffee break over at Shirleys house. The young man on the left is Frank. Me in the middle and Karla sitting prim and proper. I posted this shot from the many shots that were taken due to fact the two on either side of me are holding still. It was special to be teamed up with these two, and Ron as well, not seen, taking the picture. Good memories. Franks plan to leave a time capsule at the house he wants to come back and see in 20yrs was cute. He will be 101 that year. Thanks for the talks Karla and those clean windows. That transformation could make a great object lesson.

This cool early morning shot in the Bayou is a good reminder of the work and the fellowship we enjoyed in the middle week of November 2005. The sorting of the tools for the different job sites. In the picture we have from left to right, Mike/Fred/Kerry/Abe with his hands up/Steve/ and Ron. Taking the picture was Jim. Also seen are the shortbox with the hemi/watertower/tool trailer/ and the trailer Jo and me got to sleep in the second week. This was a cool morning/not the normal warm muggy weather we had most of the time.

This vietnamese family is where i was working today. We are starting to put there floor back in. They are very pleased and have a lot of smiles for the workers. We had Abe, a pilot for Air Canada donate an aircompressor and spiker to mds yesterday so now we could make some good progress.

over were we are most homes can still be fixed. This one should be okay ones it dries out a bit

remember the x from 97?

this was a very common site but you don,t get the smell

this would have a been a mile or so from the ocean. near the ocean had only a few torn down tree stumps left

Hi its tuesnov15 these are some of the sites we saw on sunday afternoon as we toured the gulf coast. the check points let us into most areas. this would have been close to Biloxi

How you like to have a roof like this. Sherman said we were angels from heaven so the cross on the roof was installed so he would remember. He got the first roof job of this project, and all his shingles were mixed from the (warmups) at Lowes. I believe his total cost for them was under $50 dollars brand new both sides.

How da ya like this cotton picken machine?

This is the group from Nov 7 to the 12. Largest group from Akron Pa. Taken beside the tool trailer

This is taken at present camp at the church and the new directors Ralph and Carolyn. Just before the group shot of the first week gang. We plan to move this week into Bayou La Batre picture to follow