The end is near...

It's Friday today and as I'm writing this blog, we've completed our assignment (hoorah!!). On Thursday evening we had a fun time together to celebrate the completion of our tour. Tom and Grace made it a fun evening with lots of sharing of our experiences and some fun games. I produced a set of DVD's with a photo slide presentation that Tom handed out to all the couples and single guys. Also, us first timers received our CRWRC pins and a Kenner pin. We worked only 4 hours this morning and then cleaned up the work site and handed in our tools. After cleaning the work trucks thoroughly we took our showers. We were pleased with the amount of work we have accomplished in the past three weeks. In my particular house, we put on the siding and got the house 80% insulated. We also completed drywalling the master bedroom and about 50% of the kitchen. The next DRS crew should be able to complete the drywalling, mudding and painting. The lady that owns the house will come over next week for Thanksgiving and have a look at how far we've come. I think she'll be very pleased. The other teams have also accomplished a lot of work. I have to say, these old guys and galls can work!!! It was hard for me as one of the youngest to keep up with them. The oldest guy was Peter Faber at 76 years. When you see him, he looks like 68-69 and he's one of the hardest workers. I hope to be in as good a shape as he is now when I'm 76.

Today we said farewell to 4 couples. It's a bit sad to part ways after being together for 3 weeks, 24-7 but on the other hand it's also nice to be going home again. Annie and I miss our kids, grand-kids and friends by now. Three week assignments are just about the right number of days to be gone. We are thankfull to God that no one got into an accident or seriously hurt themselves. I think it's a miracle because the work sites are often clutterred even though we try to keep them organized. Also, the traffic here in New Orleans is crazy. It's like the 401 in Toronto. So, tomorrow, Saturday, we'll be heading back home again. We hope to stay over near Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday night and on Sunday night we're planning to overnight near Fort Wayne, Indiana. We hope to arrive back in Acton on Monday afternoon DV. Please pray for a safe trip for us.

Well, we've got most of our big suitcase packed and we'll relax for the rest of the afternoon. Till we meet again, either in the flesh, blog, email, Skype, etc.