New garden door
Crew at Miss Loretta's with Destiny supervising
Lois and Jack
Beaumont Blog 5
Miss Loretta’s renovations are complete after some final finishing touches. There is a certain amount of satisfaction for the volunteers to have one job completed, especially since there were many more improvements done than were initially approved.
The new garden door is absolutely beautiful and the new flooring will be so much easier for her to clean. The many upgraded items will certainly make her life more comfortable, and that is a blessing to us.
We enjoyed the company of Miss Loretta’s 4 year old granddaughter, Destiny, for two days while we worked there. Loretta’s 15 year old nephew, Will, was babysitting Destiny, as there was no school. He mainly stayed in his bedroom watching T.V. Little Destiny shyly came out of her room at first, but in a short time, she was talking the ear off Lois and I, and entertaining us as only a 4 year old can! She’s a little cutie. It was somewhat difficult to understand what she was saying sometimes, because she has that “drawl”, but we managed to communicate quite well. John always stays there for lunch to babysit the tool trailer, and he shared his lunch with Destiny the one day.
The crew at Darcy’s did the last wall of siding. Lois and I helped do the caulking on the last wall so Agnes and Annette could stay home. The men had stabilized the front porch and then they were finishing it off with aluminum fascia and putting up two big posts. The whole exterior of the house will look 100% better than it did, even though painting it is not on our agenda.
The third project started is Miss Orma’s. This is a house trailer up on pillars which FEMA provided to the elderly Miss Orma and her blind husband when their home was destroyed in Hurricane Ike. It is barely liveable, but SETIO is providing funds for some minor renovations. John fixed the plumbing under the sink and a bank of drawers that was falling apart, as well as fixing her commode. He was quite happy that there was no further interior work we were committed to do, as she has a cockroach infestation! We certainly hope SETIO will look after getting an exterminator in to help them with that situation!!
What will keep John and Bernie busy next week is finishing the 30 feet of handicap ramp which was started on Friday. There was a lot of heavy bull work getting the beams set up and ready, so they were very tired when they got home from work. We are told the girls can screw down the boards and put up the spindle railing next week…
Our highlight of last weekend was driving to Johnson Bayou where we had built homes after Hurricane Rita, to attend church there. Since Hurricane Ike destroyed their lovely church building, the Baptist Church has been holding Sunday services in the Pastor’s home. Their small congregation was also having a pre-Thanksgiving feast after the service and our entire MDS group was invited and greeted as long-lost family. We learned that Miss FloraBelle’s husband, Mr. Alvin, had passed away this summer. He had been an old Louisiana cowboy with Mr. Archie. We had gotten to know them a bit, as they were the first house beside our campground and their son, Tim Trahan, owned the campground.
The Pastor advised us that MDS regular unit in Cameron is building a new house for Miss FloraBelle, and later in the week, we learned that Gerry Sapinsky, one of our MDS RV Program friends, will be heading up an RV unit there in February to finish that house and another one for one of the ladies who was at the church service. That was very heartwarming to hear.
Jim and Annette are going home to Steinbach for December and will be returning for January and February. We will certainly miss them, as they are both hard workers.
We will probably be going out shopping for Black Friday to see what kind of specials they have out there. Our 15.4 inch HD Widescreen LCD was sufficient when we first bought it, but we think we’d like to find about a 29-32 inch. Would like to have one with a built-in DVD player, but it seems like there are none of those on the Black Friday sales we’ve seen so far.
Then if we buy an antenna, MAYBE we will be able to get some TV reception here!! John is sick of reading books already.
The traffic on our highway about doubled with the Thanksgiving holiday starting on November 26th. The Americans REALLY celebrate Thanksgiving! Food, family and football, they say here.
We are looking forward to Sunday with the Grey Cup game between the Riders and Stampeders. Will be watching it on the web site that Darren gave us to use (maybe on our brand new 32 inch T.V.???). GO RIDERS GO!!!!
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