Extreme Time.....

photo from ABC station KLTV

This week I participated in an Extreme Home Makeover project-the Carr family of Mineola, Texas.

photo from ABC affiliate KLTV

The tv show doesn't begin to prepare you for what the staff calls "extreme time".....I drove the three hour round trip drive and worked on the site for nine and a half hours with hundreds of other "blue shirts"(as we were fondly referred to!)..and was the first one to leave on my crew!

This was the crew I was on....great, hardworking professional people, two from Dallas and the rest of us from Tyler.

KLTV photo

Ty keeps up morale with his energy!

This is a photo of me and the friend who emerged me into "extreme time"... just on the day I was there (day three), the yard was leveled, a fence put up, driveway staked and poured, exterior walls rocked and I can't even begin to list what was accomplished on the inside.

The day was filled with hard work interspaced with production shots for the show.

I can't give anything away before the May 9 air date. Let's just say there was a lot of red venetian plaster involved!