Wow, your daughter and SIL are very resourceful. Sounds like they are on the
way to full recovery. Congrats to them and to you for raising such a good
daughter. You're very lucky and so are they.
Lily & her mama

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Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time
"CatNipped" wrote in message
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For those of you following my daughter's Katrina saga....

I have some *VERY* good news.

First, Erin and Greg finished putting on the new roof last weekend (they
did it *BY THEMSELVES*). They've also finished replacing all the studs
inside the house that were damaged (and while they were at it they
rearranged the floor plan to open the house up by putting a bar between
the living room and kitchen instead of a wall, and taking down the wall
that created the hall).

Then they got a nice surprise - they heard last Friday that an
out-of-state branch of their church is sending a "mission team" to help
Katrina victims rebuild. They arrived today at Erin's house. The team
includes a licensed electrician and a licensed plumber and they were able
to purchase all materials (including bathtub, sinks and toilets) at out of
state at cost (which will save Erin and Greg a bundle since prices for
building supplies along the gulf coast have sky-rocketed). This week they
will finish rewiring the entire house, lay all the pipes and plumbing
(they enlarged the bathroom so the placement of the tub was moved), and
float the dry wall. They estimate they will be done with all this by the
end of this week. This will put them *WAY* ahead of the schedule they'd
planned!

After that Erin and Greg will have to apply the wall and ceiling plaster
and paint all walls and ceilings, hang their kitchen cabinets, put down
the flooring (they're going with ceramic tile, I think), and start
replacing essential furniture (beds and table and chairs). By then the
house should at least be far enough along for them to move back in -
they'll just have trimwork and yardwork after that.

Erin took pictures of the new roof last Saturday and she'll be sending
them, along with pictures of the result of the work they'll be doing this
week, in a week or two and I'll post them as part of the pictorial journal
we're keeping online.

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Hugs,

CatNipped

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