No Longer in Mississippi

Our 3 weeks in Mississippi ended yesterday with a full day at Darlene’s house finishing the vanity installation and associated plumbing.  We are not fans of remodeling old PVC waterlines.  A couple of old fittings broke when we were adding new lines, making for more work.  But the bottom line is that it is IN and Done.  It works and she is happy with it.  That counts more than how long it took us to do the job.  The mirror has yet to be installed, and some wall patching is yet to be done, but Stell and Jodi (2 other Nomads on that project who are staying in Mosspoint for another week) can finish that up next week.

We had a “going away” banquet last night at Caswell Springs UMC (our home for the past 3 weeks).  They had a report about the gumbo fundraising dinner and talent show we attended when we arrived.  Over $5,000 was raised for 3 different missions groups at that event and everyone had an enjoyable evening.  They had great food for us and we enjoyed saying our good-byes to everyone on the project and church members.

We hit the road about 9:00 this morning, headed west into Louisiana.  We will take the weekend off in New Orleans, similar to what we had done 2 years ago and then head into Texas for awhile.  It is still too early in the year to return to Minnesota, so we have agreed to lead another Nomads group in northern Louisiana during the first 3 weeks of April, and then head back to the north.  In the meantime, we plan to sleep late, recuperate, drink lots of coffee, walk the French Quarter, and eat lots of Cajun Food and more seafood this weekend.