How is it still 80 mid November?

New Orleans Sculpture Garden

Next to a house we're painting

House we painted, walls and ceilings

Gallon Challenge!

Mary Louise

Reverend Ann

Dewitt

St James Church Group Volunteers!

Trim we painted

Pantry and trim painted

Kari showing off her quartering skills around the trim

Much to be done!

Outside the house to the left
7th District NOLA

Across the street
7th District NOLA

To the right
7th District NOLA

Kaboom build!

Reminds me of the Disney movie "Holes"

Friday at last.  Another week has whizzed by and there was a lot accomplished this week. First and foremost we had a group of church volunteers from St James Church in Richmond Virginia come work with us this week which was pretty nice of them!  Also awesome because I was able to become a site supervisor for PNOLA and run my own team of volunteers painting for the week.  As you can see I had 3 volunteers out of the 7 that arrived, Dewitt, Mary Louise, and Ann who were all super friendly.  We painted everyday this week they were here and they were "painted out" as they phrased it by the end of the week.

The top picture is where my team volunteered last weekend doing an ISP at the sculpture garden picking up trash and keeping the area clean.  We have been blessed with amazing weather this entire time as today hit around 80 again and was mostly sunny!

The "Gallon challenge" is a game that Will and I play everyday when we work to encourage each other to stay hydrated we see who can polish off a gallon of water first.  So far Will has been slacking and although does complete a gallon a day, does not complete it in time before I do.  Even when we are not working together I will send him a picture message of my progress throughout the day to keep the gallon challenge alive!!

The Kaboom build is an ISP we did today instead of working with PNOLA, and which we will do tomorrow as well (6am leave time ouch!). Basically a Kaboom build is setting up a playground for kids at a park, or school or wherever.  For us it is at an elementary school and we will be leading local volunteers tomorrow  to setup a full playground throughout the day.  Should be fun and I'm looking forward to catching up on ISP hours as I've only done about 20 before this spike!

I know I've been slacking with the blog, I'll try to keep it to 2 times a week however there is so much more to do in New Orleans than in Mobile Alabama!! And finally I'm able to go to the gym on a regular basis which is keeping me sane (also which means I don't have to run anymore!).