My Woodshop – Life after Katrina
During Katrina’s landfall my wife and I stayed in our house on the Tchoutachouffa River in Biloxi. Well as you might imagine things got pretty dicey for a while. It was close but that is another story. We made it and following the storm we lived with our son and his family for 9 weeks until I found the little Biloxi cottage we have now. We lost our home but were able to salvage a great deal of building materials. I retired in 2008 and have split my time between some small consulting and modifying our little cottage and building a wood shop. I have just over $7000 in new materials and about $4400 in material salvaged from our river home in the new woodshop. I am using the shop now to rework some of the family treasures we were able to save from Katrina. As soon as those are done I will start making stuff. I still have a lot of 100 year old pine and fir from the river house so I’ll start with that. Building the shop was a great healing process for me. My grandson has a clubhouse in the small loft over the porch. The world is just right when we are out in the shop together.
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Poles in the ground
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The box
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Trusses and the loft
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East wall/Door, Garden, and screen porch
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My shop come sit a spell
