March 2006 update

After working for two weeks helping build and learning about building a habitat for Humanity house,in Leyland, MS,  the main thing we learned is there is no way we are going to try to build our own home ourselves...it takes more than two people to do the walls and rafters...especially two amateurs who are not into physical labor...

But we enjoyed working with the local affiliate, and the other caravan-ers, as we took one house from slab foundation to erected, roofed with shingles, and most of the siding installed....as well as finishing work on another house, trim, finish wiring and main panel wiring, etc. 

 

It was also our first visit to the Mississippi Delta, and we made sure to visit the US 61 Blues Museum in Leyland, as well as the Kermit the Frog Birthplace museum...(Jim Henson was from Leyland!).  One of the local affiliate members is from "up North", and has lived and traveled in Europe quiet a bit.  He claimed there was more culture shock moving to Leyland than Moving to Germany....

 

We left Greenville, MS, this morning and stopped in Gadsden, AL, and tonight we have E-mail and Internet for the first time in two weeks!  After the brief showers before we left, the weather just kept getting better and better...but it is following us East!  We hope to get set up tomorrow night in Ashville before the haevy stuff catches up...

 

Jim and Cathy