With all the tremendous progress made in Hawthorne last week thanks to Habitat for Humanity and President Carter, I wanted to spend at least a few hours volunteering. It took until Friday morning before I finally cleared enough time to stop by and fill in wherever I was needed. By that time I had put in enough hours at work that I was feeling a bit under the weather. But if Jimmy Carter, at 86 years old, can spend a day or two in the hospital and then come out and pound a few nails, this former farmboy ought to be able to tough it out.
I asked where I was needed, and they put me on caulking duty at the house where the President worked. So in a way, you could say I helped with the Presidential seal. My childhood times scampering around on the top of a hay wagon came in handy too, as I approached the heights of the scaffolding rather casually. I did have to duck out early enough to practice a speech written by former HNC Board Chair (and now Officer Candidate) Peter Teachout.
And earlier in the week, I received...
