Madison and Clark counties are in need of some special love and attention. Our partner family is a single mother trying to build a better life for herself and two kids. All in all, we felt that words alone cannot describe the deep sense of gratitude expressed for us simply being here.
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| Ms. Rebecca Willis in the center and our new friend Liz in front of Asla. You people viewing our blogs know the rest of the pictured homeskillets. |
The home we are working on is a 'recycled' home. It was built by Habitat 20 years earlier, but has since fallen into abandon. Our main focus today was to gut the interior walls of drywall and insulation.
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| A little amputation never hurt anybody. (Olivia and Cory) |
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| Cory showing the tools and Morgan showing the "guns" in the background. |
Our project manager expected us to gut the back two bedrooms and part of the hallway. By the end of our second shift, we'd made it into the living room and kitchen, attacking the walls and cabinets with all we had!
Originally, we were divided by helmet color (White Caps SUX EGGS and the Green Knights) to see who could gut their back bedroom first. As the competition died with the last few pieces of crumbling drywall, the teams merged to finish the rest of the house. The seamless sense of teamwork struck a cord in all of us as both natural and miraculous.
Also, shout-out to Liz our pick axe wielding habitat friend who straight up murdered some drywall. She will be arraigned on Tuesday, but really... she is visiting friends here in Richmond and decided to volunteer for a few days.
The work may have been tough, but it was fun kicking through walls and knocking over things together.
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| Asla using the boot!!! |
In case you need help going to sleep...
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