Volunteering with Habitat for Humanity

Several houses later it was time for the 2010 Blitz build. 20 houses in 10 days. Week one was rainy and muddy. I am glad that I had decided to volunteer for all of week 2. I was assigned to house #1 with Kim. After working a day on that house. Kim asked me to work on House #2 as that house leader needed some assistance. We had great volunteers all week. One of the groups had brothers. One worked for the company that was providing the volunteers and the other one was home on leave from the service. How cool was that he took one of his precious days on leave and spent it building with his brother. The days were long and hard but worth it. Check-in was at the neighborhood park 2 blocks away. They also served lunch there. So either you parked by the house or in the park's lot. I choose to park by the house I was assigned to work it. Even though Habitat provided tools to work with. I still brought several of my own. It seems easier to have some of your own tools rather then hunt for the tool in the tool trailer. The end of the last day found our house painted, landscaped, and carpeted. The houses were all beautiful.