1299 - Habitat

Well I finally got back to Habitat. Our group has sort of been on the sidelines this summer. But a new leader for our group with a fresh attitude has gotten things rolling again. If you remember Habitat from last year (POST 848), today was uneventful.



( This is a view of the houses earlier in the year. They are nearly done now. Maybe next Sunday I'll remember to take a camera ....... maybe.)



Well not in a big way. Habitat has been begging for house leaders and crew leaders. My whole reason to go is to pound on things with hammers and whatever. I don't need to be in charge of anybody. So the crew leader today was an 'I don't know how old' kid. I call her a kid because she is probably fresh out of (or still in) college.

But she did a decent job of keeping people busy. She even handled rejection well when she would ask us older guys to do something and we said no. (This was her third day. I've got so many days in I've lost count.)

So in the AM I was inside helping clean and doing paint touch up. (boring) In the PM things turned around. GUY STUFF!!! Digging post holes, mixing concrete, setting fence posts. GUY STUFF!!!

But then the real exciting thing happened. The build site is in North St. Louis City. The guarded parking lot is about 6 blocks from the build site with the 'sign in' area about half way in between. I left the work site a little later than everyone else. I walked back by the sign in area and kept going. Then I started thinking, was the parking lot 2 blocks or 3? Was it a half a block off the street I was going down? Did I have to ..... where the hell is the parking lot!!!! I'm wandering around (walking) North St. Louis with a vague idea of where I'm going.

After a few miss steps I found the lot. The guard is sitting inside the fenced area with the gate closed. I have to ask him to open up and he checks me out to make sure I'm a Habitat person. I was the second last car to leave the lot. Next week I'm either parking closer or leaving earlier.

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Holy crap! It's 10/10/10 today! I'm going to have to call into the Jay and Matt show at 10:10.