further steps

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on our second day we went back to the same house where we'd worked the day before.  a planned splitting of the team to cover a second project hasn't worked out yet due to some unresolved coordination issues.  that's OK, there's been no shortage of thing to do. 

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Gautier, MS

surface irregularities in the floor needed to be ground down before the wood flooring and tiles could be applied. 

Mary vacuuming and Ruben grinding


accumulation

the flooring required lots of cutting and fitting. 

Kitty and Hutch ripping a floorboard


Elise and Violet measuring carefully before cutting to length

in the kitchen, the soffit was being set in place. 

Ruben and Ridge

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Gulf Coast

the site's proximity to the coast made it vulnerable to the storm and surge, but also made possible a waterside lunch break. 

what's not visible in the background of this image is the row of a dozen or so homes, obliterated down to ground level.  some had been on slabs, some on stilts, but none remained. 

Hutch and Ed


Ridge

a short walk down the road was another former homesite, the only remaining trace of which was this pool.  it is now home to a vigorous herd of feral minnows, and a good thing: there were no mosquito larvae to be seen. 

on the way back we stopped for a quick look at the remains of another structure, its support columns seeming more like outdoor sculpture. 

sculpture garden

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back to work

flooring crew: Judy, Elise, Violet, Kitty, Hutch, David


Ruben, finishing up the soffit

incidental texture

[OT from cottage renovations]
[images crossposted to texture]

this trip isn't about texture studies, but a some of those images just seem to happen along the way. 

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beach bones


at the job site, a vine climbs a window screen


wrack


an odd spot for a balloon to fall to earth


fabric caught in tree branches


mosaic by Katrina