Let me tell ya a little story about a pig headed friend of mine

[Chop Smith]

Thanks Pat and Emmanuelle. Your are both correct I am both pigheaded and bullheaded. As you both know, it is not about me. However, it does warm my heart for you and other members of this board that know my situation to have expressed their concern. But who knows, it is possible that I will be buying drinks in Vegas in January.

Pat, the contribution you sent, was pooled with some from local folks and used to purchase tarps to cover an elderly couple's roof in Long Beach, MS. Bo, his brother from Baton Rouge and a few of Bo's employees were scheduled to be on the coast tomorrow. As it turns out, the house and most everything a mile from the beach is going to be condemned and will be dozed beginning Wednesday. They are still going to see if they can assist the family in salvaging some things and assist them with relocation. It is my understanding that they are not new to relocating as they came from Vietnam.

Emmanuelle, I did not expect FEMA to reimburse me for my life support. If they do I will put the reimbursement with the other contributions. I spoke to you privately about H4H's "house in a box". With FEMA's reimbursement I should have a few thousand. I would like to raise enough to build a house for the most disadvantage family we can find. Since you have already applied for H4H, I would hope this would be the house you work to build. They normally name the houses. Perhaps the members of the board could dig a little deeper and we could call this the GG&Jim house. So many members have already contributed to the Red Cross and other organizations. But they might be others, like Pat, that would like to see where their money is going.

BTW, Pat, we found out that our boat on the coast is gone with the entire marina. Still no tears. My tears are for those that could not own a boat and lived from day to day. Knowing if it had happened on pay day they would have escaped.