My Journey: more pictures from week 5

.......God Bless........

My Journey: Week 5 of my house

It's lQQking better & better every week !!!!! ............God Bless..........

My Journey: Sick again, with a bad cold......

Well I've been sick with a bad respitory cold for the last couple weeks, AGAIN !!!

I got some pills from my doctor, so hoping I feel better soon. I still say it's the bacteria and living in this fema trailer. But no one is ever going to admit to it . I'll be glad to get out of this tin can and into my house! It will be so wonderful to have a life again. And to return to a some what normal routiene again. If there is such a thing !! The group that was here last week bought me some flowers. It was so sweet of them. You get attached to the people, even in a weeks time. Thank God for those wonderful volunteers. I don't know where we'd be without them. .......God Bless.................

My Journey Ready to Move On

I think I'm going to be overjoyed to move into and to live in my house. I'm sitting here thinking back on all the places I've been and lived in , in the last 19 months. I'm tired of camping, I think it will be a very long time before I want to camp again. I'm ready to get settled back into my home and try to have a normal life again. Right now its still so overwhelming to go to a real house or even into a store. I have anxiety attacks. I hope I get over that soon. I guess you get so used to the confined place , which A Fema trailer, even a motel room, is a confined space. I know its not like a home is. It will be so nice to have some counter space. And to be able to walk around your bed without knocking your head on the t.v. shelf. And having a nice big bathtub, that you can really take a good bath, and soak for a hour !! And to have a real stove, and a washer and dryer. Oh Good God , I can't wait !! Here are a few pictures of what I have now. !! Which I've been fornuate to have, but its been a long journey. And I'm ready to move on.......God Bless.................

My Journey Businesses coming back, SLOWLY !!

This is a restaurant in Pearlington that they've been working on. Hopefully soon they'll be back in business again !! Things are starting to improve some. Thank God for the volunteers.....God Bless...........

My Journey: Some of my volunteers

Pictures of some of the volunteers from N.C.-Va. , and Michigan that were here working last week. It's so wonderful meeting all of these wonderful people. Each week new ones come. You get so attached to them, you hate to see them go. I am keeping a journal of all the people so I can keep in touch and send them a picture of my house when its finished. Its so amazing that these people from all walks of life take a week and alot of them more, out of their lives to come here to give us hope and love and support and kindess that they give us. We sure couldn't be where we are without them. God Bless them all. They sure are special people. ....................God Bless..........................

My Journey "My House ! coming along !!! "

Pictures of my House !! Its coming along !! Its so Beautiful !!!!

..............................God Bless..................................................

My Journey: The No-See-Ums

Hi, Sorry I haven't been posting much. I've been so busy and sick again. I'll be so glad to get out of this Fema trailer. But it could be all this crazy weather too. One day I have the A.C. on and the next the heater. Or during the day the A.C. and at night the heater. Soon tho it will be so hot we'll all wish for this cooler weather again. I remember in 2005, Feb. came , I turned the A.C. on and never turned it off until the day I left for Katrina. I think that had alot to do with the storms that year. It had been such a hot summer. I know I was so used to air condition, that I about had a heat stroke being out in that heat. The only thing that saved us was that artisian well and we had some electrolite pills. Summer is here for us now , and I don't for- see too many more cold nights. The love bugs are here and so are the dern nats. Oh yea, the mosquitos also, but they never left !! A nat bit me on my eyelid a while ago, so now my eyelid is swollen about shut! They are some awnrey little things. And the worst part is you can't even see them !! There was a article in the SeaCoastEcho the other day about them, it was Sat March 3rd. called,
I Fear I See No-See-Ums, by Paul Estronza LaViolette in the Views from A Porch.
LOL he calls then No-See-Ums, he said they're really called Culicoides, with several species. He says its only the females that bite. Golly there are millions of females then !! I'm not sure which is worse the nats or mosquitos! They are all annoying and bite! The dern nats will even come thru the screens. They come here in the spring and in the fall. I really feel sorry for all the people that have to be outside working around them. I've been lighting a fire in a big metal pan for the volunteers. If you get leaves and get a smoke fire going is the only thing I know that helps. The bug spray helps, but I think they get amuned to it !! Well I'll try to write more often. Take care ..........................God Bless..........................................