If I come up with a witty title for this entry, it will be a miracle...

So another Lagniappe week is coming to an end. I've done a lot this week, especially as I was working all day yesterday as well. On Thursday I was assigned to work with Clyde and the British group instead of working with Dick and the rest of the interns. I did, however, join that crew for lunch, as we had been invited by a friend of Dick and Maggie's to lunch up in Kiln, MS (for all those who aren't familiar with southern Mississippi, this town is called "The Kill" by everyone around, don't ask me why) We had some of the best roast beef that has ever seen the inside of a po-boy roll, and an invitation to come back anytime. On the way up to "the Kill" Dick asked me if I knew why I had been assigned to work with Clyde, and after I had jokingly guessed that it was because he wanted me as far away from his worksite as possible, he told me it was because Jordan had asked him specifically who would be able to handle the job. I guess I must be doing something right. Throughout the day working with the English, I got to know them pretty well and went out to the Mockingbird (yes, it pretty much IS the hang-out of Bay St. Louis, and with Lazy Magnolia beer (from the Kill) on tap, and live music on Thursday nights, it pretty much IS the nightlife as well^^ check out the website at www.mockingbirdcafe.com) I was back on the Moran house on Friday, and although almost 40 minutes late, Mike showed up with about 50 pounds of crawfish for us for lunch, which we tore through a bit more than half of before throwing in the towel. ("we" at this point was not just the 5 construction interns and Dick, we had about 12 volunteers from Germantown Academy there along with the homeowner (Mike) and several of his friends. We wrapped up what we were doing and looked back to realize what we had accomplished: taken the house from being empty of anything but framing, electric wire and plumbing and insulated and drywalled pretty much the entire house. We realized of course that a professional team would have done the same work in a day or two, whereas we took a week and a half and aren't quite done, but most of us started out the process as complete amateurs and by Friday we were teaching others faster than Dick taught us.
Saturday rolled around, and so did we, in this: A Ford F-350 Flatbed "dualie" truck
James and I were moving things off a construction site that was almost finished and getting them squared away in the tool crib. After lunch we ran out of things to do, so we decided to go around and check on a group building a fence around the property that will eventually house the new Bay St. Louis Little Theater. The property has a very interesting history which is explained quite well on their website. They invited us to come back on the 14th to a fundraising picnic, which promises to not only be a good time with good food, but a neat cultural event as well, as a group of students will be performing the Tennessee Williams one-act play, "This Property is Condemned", the movie version (starring Robert Redford and Natalie Wood, as well as Charles Bronson and Robert Blake) of which was filmed in Bay St. Louis.
As you can see, a few changes have been made to the blog, font, color scheme, etc. This, like everything around me, is a work-in-progress and will continue to change as the summer goes on. New features include: the ability to post comments without a Google, OpenID, or LiveJournal account. If you would like to comment on a post, you just hit the comment link below the post, type your comment in the box and select "Name/URL" as your Identity. You will also need to pass the robot test (i.e. type the word that you see in the box) but any and everyone should be able to comment now. Please do comment to let me know who is reading this, what I can do to make the blog better, and tell me how awesome I am ... well everything except that last part^^ Also, I have hyperlinked interesting article pertaining to things mentioned in the post so that you all know what I am talking about.