By special request!  Sorry to you 7707 Downman Road people to have not been very diligent about getting these pictures up.  Here are some exterior shots to tide y’all over.  Linda’s been working like crazy at night and using the day to catch up on rest.  As soon as I can get in the house to take some shots of all the beautiful work inside, they’ll be up here.  But for now, here are some to tide y’all over of the outside now that it’s been beautifully purple-d.

After!

New driveway and landscaping!

We’re on week 3 of a new house on Reynes St.  It’s a miracle project.  I got to talking to this woman outside of Kermit Ruffins show at Vaughn’s bar in the Ninth Ward who told me she moved into town two days earlier from Fort Worth and needed her house rebuilt.  I told her to call us and a month or so later, we were finishing gutting it.  It’s a God thing, I suppose.  Since then, we’ve put on a new roof, fixed some floor joists, laid sub-floor, and re-framed all the spots with termite damage.  Thanks to the groups from Raleigh, NC (and their friends from Wisconsin and Nebraska), Chambersburg, PA, and Bridgeport, IL for their great work!

Front porch

Wesley and Jacob from Raleigh glad they're not on the roof

Full dumpster = progress!

View from the brand new roof

Jeff, Brad and Kevin from Raleigh thinking it over

Kim's office, looking from the front room

Soon-to-be kitchen/dining room

Another view of the front porch (check out that brand new roof)

Brand new bathroom

Chad, my trusty NCCC, in the master bedroom