It was an early morning today for our group. We all left for a new site at 7am. Instead of splitting into groups at different sites, we stayed together at Joseph Byrd's house where we carefully took apart a home built by his great-grandfather. The stories he told of the hurricane and the history of the property were very interesting and helped us understand the culture and the people a bit more. The small wood home we were deconstructing was picked up by Katrina and moved 10 feet from its original position. Joseph shared that the only reason the house wasn't completely blown away by the storm was because of a telephone pole that had been knocked down in the perfect position to stop the house. The house was sturdy, built from wood cut by Joseph's great-grandfather at the sawmill that used to be on the property. The site was in D'Iberville, only a short walk from our site we worked at yesterday, about a 20 minute drive from Grace House. We made a lot of progress in taking apart the home. Joseph was amazed at how much of the house we were able to take down in one day's work. He wanted to save much of the wood for future projects, which meant we carefully dismanteled the house piece by piece. There were trees on the property to provide shade, although it was still very hot and humid. By the end of the day we had taken off the exterior boards, part of the interior boards, and the entire ceiling and roof supports, in addition to removing all of the nails from each piece of wood that we were saving. We are hoping to return on Sunday to finish the job.
Because of the early start and humidity, we returned home around 4pm and had time to clean up and relax before having dinner with some of the youth from our partner church Westminster Presbyterian. It was nice to fellowship with them over dinner, some crazy card games, and songs. Tomorrow will be our rest day and we are looking forward to visiting New Orleans.
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