Meet Firecracker

Jack's new 8-month old puppy Firecracker. She's a terrier mix with one underdeveloped leg that we will probably have to have removed. She was next on the "put down" list at the shelter when a friend rescued and fostered her until we met her. These are pictures from Jack and Firecracker's first meeting.

Cub Scouts

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. Our newest Tiger Cub Pack!

Some Bridge City Pictures

If you don't know what I'm talking about here take a look at the previous post.

Here is a shot of their belongings in the yard waiting to go to the dump. There is very little grass even left in Bridge City. Salt water is a killer.

This is what the Bridge City house looked like when they opened the door. The water had tossed everything around and there was a layer of sludgy stinky (and probably toxic) mud on the floor.

It's been a while

Sorry it's been a while since my last post. I'm also not keeping up with my facebook page. I'm pretty much just checking email at this point.

Things in Beaumont are getting back to some kind of normal. Many people are displaced but able to rent houses in the area. There are no available rooms for 90 miles!

Yesterday Mike spent the day in Bridge City, a town that almost doesn't exist anymore. He helped an 80-year-old couple gut their house. They had six feet of water in their house so they lost everything. Mike spent the day hauling every single thing these people own to their curb, then ripping up their flooring to the subfloor and tearing out the walls to the studs. Can you imagine starting over from scratch at that age? There's nothing unique about their story here.

Em