Moving forward - second year in retirement

Habitat for Humanity is a wonderful program wherein families have the opportunity to own their own home.  Each family is required to put in 400 hours on their home and hours can be accumulated by family members are even donated by friends.  They make interest only payments so the homes aren't free.

This last week, they had a special "blitz" build for five days to get 11 homes to the "dried in" stage so I volunteered for that as well.  In addition to about 40 local volunteers there was about 125 Americorp young people that were brought in from all over the United States.

The slabs all were previously poured prior to our starting:

The following picture is after a couple of days with the wall panels up:

The next picture was taken at noon on Friday.  They told us to totally stop work at 12:00, go eat (they fed everyone under a huge tent every day) and start cleaning every thing up after lunch.

I wasn't accustomed to this type of work and was totally exhausted at the end of each day from carrying lumber, running a nail gun by nailing fascia boards overhead, swinging a hammer, sawing, etc.  It was really a super exeperience and the Americorp "kids" were a pleasure to work with.