Hammerin' In the Delta

House #50

Here we go.

The wiring on House #50 is going great. Jon has lots of electrical experience. Charlotte is supervising several crews at once, and most everybody is doing what they are told.

Kristin is being brave. Jacob is being reckless. He seems to like it up there.

Homeowners are required to put in a certain number of hours working on their homes or someone else’s. Yketa and family have been diligent about it. She showed up with her father and daughters today. As many of the builders do, her daughters left evidence of their presence on the boards.

Habitat usually hires professional electricians to come in and do the wiring. The fact that the chapter will not need to for this house will save about $1,800. At lunch, Sherri kept trying to tell Jon and Andy that they had to stick around for another week. They kept pretending not to hear her.

Since House #49 fills up all the available land that Habitat has been building on for years, they now have to look for new sites. The powers that be have been less than enthusiastic. It took months to get a permit to build on this site. The city opposed it because it would upset an historic neighborhood full of brick houses. There is a very nice brick house to one side of the new house. It is an impressive dwelling, at least from the outside.

Here are the houses on either side of the new one. On the right side is a house apparently made of invisible bricks.

On the left is another invisible house, and beyond that a house of some indeterminate material, as it has long since started to return to nature.

It is historic in the sense that the vegetation engulfing it has not  been disturbed for years, perhaps decades.

The rest of the block consists of houses or various materials, most of them made of something other than brick.

Progress continues, sometimes regardless of obstacles that make no sense. It is often two steps forward, one step back. But some people keep stepping.

High Cotton, one more time

We made one more visit to High Cotton. Actually, I did. Most of the rest of the crew were visiting it for the first time, and Jacob was there for the first time ever.

He left with a t-shirt, a couple of items of the exact kind his grandmother collects, and a few other items, completing what might be several years of shopping on his first visit.

Mike bought a bunch of items for his son Chris.

I found this great drawing Stephanie made that would look great on my wall, but it was a bit out of my price range. Good. I have been telling Stephanie for years that she does not charge enough.

So Charlotte bought it for me! Isn’t that nice?