Here is looking out from the church toward Taft. Half of the parking lot is water.
Here they are shoveling sand into cones that are rigged up to a wood base and people are holding bags open beneath the cone. They could fill lots of bags rapidly this way. Damon is in the center shoveling away, bless his heart. Laura and Joe were out there for a while doing the same. Will is down in the left hand corner.
Here is a shot of Will getting more sandbags. I am so proud of his willingness to work wherever there is a need. He will grow up knowing the importance of serving - just like his dad.
Here are two of our good friends Ken in the red shirt and Dean in the brown shirt fastening bags.
I helped in the kitchen getting food ready to serve the workers and Don did some odds and ends - no lifting! Then shortly after these photos were taken we went home....Don was tired out as he had been on his feet longer than he was use to since his surgery. Then the corps of engineers opened the water at the dam - tonight - instead of Tues. so I guess they are still working into the night. God help them.
I was just looking at my little trellis thingy and hoping it lasts a long time. I love this old thing. I take it outside every spring, summer, and fall, then back inside for the winter. I hang random things on it. The birdhouse says "Look at the birdie!" but no birds have wanted to live there. They don't want to live in the pink flamingo either. I don't understand it. Oh, well. I was thinking I should dig around the porch and find some more stuff to hang on it. It takes on a new look each year, but there are a couple oldies on there. Just to the bottom right of the flamingo's feet there's a tiny clothespin angel who is very dirty and tattered and weathered, but she keeps hanging in there year after year, poor little thing!
