Mobile Loves & Fishes, etc.

While the others were at the house on Monday, Sam, Dave, Sue and Mary went to Trinity Episcopal church to make over one hundred sandwiches for volunteers and homeless people in the city. They worked with ladies of the church who then drove us to the sites. While on the way, they also showed us homes built by Brad Pitt's charitable organization, the houses of local musicians, as well as much of the devastation in the upper and lower ninth wards. One of the crews to which we took food was making screens to sift the construction debris out of the soil so that they could plant a community garden. The men and women we then fed were lined up outside another church and signed a book to be fed.

We then went to the St. George's Church to clean up after renovations there. Dave cleaned the furnace room and barabecue pit while the rest of the group cleaned, one by one, the entire contents of the nursery to make it once again usable after many months of disuse. On the way there we had our first ride on a Louisiana street car, which have wooden seats. At the end of the track, the conductor simply walks to the other end of the car and turns the seats in the opposite direction so that they are facing forward for the reverse trip.