Housing Development Alliance

St. Philip the Apostle Church from Morrow, Ohio is volunteering with us this week. It's a sort of family affair. The three teenagers in the group get to work side-by-side with their parents, which I think is pretty cool. It's nice when a family can work together for a good cause. We placed them in two locations: the Airport and Defiance. At the Airport, four of the volunteers were raking rocks in order to plant grass for a new home. This is usually the most tedious project we have, but there were no complaints. In fact, the two girls at the site made friends with a local's dog. Yesterday, they had made friends with R. Wallens' kitten. They just have a gift with animals, I guess.

When the midday rain poured down, however, the Airport group met up with the Defiance group roofing. One individual was originally frightened of the height, but courageously faced her fear and climbed up. After today, she's going to have many many photos to show friends and family. Tomorrow is their day off, and they sure have earned it. The new house in Defiance is almost ready for shingling and much earth has been raked in efforts to make lawns.

On a more personal note, yesterday was awful. I started off the morning by backing the jeep into a tree. The only noticeable damage was a dent in the trunk, but it still sucks. And of course, most of the carpenters were there to see it take place. I will never live this down. Then Jane Rose and I had used an industrial-strength pipe cleaner in the Mission Cottage--the kind where you need to wear gloves and face masks and all that) and ended up spending half the day surrounded by the aroma of rotten eggs. It made me feel so sick. So, that's why this blog is a day late. Sorry! St. Philip has been a fun group to work with, so everything's all better. That's it for now! Take it easy, y'all!