Destin,Fl Trip Day 4 - Habitat Work Day

Dave is retired and volunteers quite a bit....one of his causes is Habitat for Humanity.  He told us a month or so ago that he'd be busy on Saturday at a Habitat workday.  So, we asked him if he could include us!

A fun "work day" on vacation!

Here's the house - simple but functional.  It's 4 bedrooms - the new owners are a fairly young couple with "one on the way", plus two mother-in-laws! The family was there working side-by-side with the volunteers.  They seem to be really nice folks!

  Lovely old trees in the neighborhood.

 Lindy and I first got assigned to do baseboard molding.  Lindy marking studs so I could use the nail-gun to attach the molding.

First piece installed!

Other volunteers doing their assigned work.  The molding was all stored in the living room, so we just would take a piece outside as we needed it to be cut to length/angle.

Another volunteer, Dick, manned the chopsaw all day.  We took him our measurement and angle requirements and he cut the molding (almost always a good fit!)  There were several folks working on molding, so we kept Dick busy!

My turn to get a piece cut!

First finished corner!  A little caulk and it will be perfect!

And so it went, all day long for me.  All around this room, closet, into the hallway and all the way around the living room!

Lindy helped other volunteers throughout the day - this time helping install door knobs.  This volunteer told us that this is his 75th Habitat house!

Hard at work measuring!

Meanwhile, outside the boys (and a few girls) were busy digging a new driveway by hand!

They were forming the entire area for concrete later in the week. Here Dave is actually working with a shovel in his hand... he's  in the dark vest....

Here I think Dave is lazing around, just being the inspector...haha!

Duane and Dave hard at work!

Lots of hands digging thru the roots and grass.

Amazing what so many hands/backs/shovels can accomplish in one day.  They dug out the entire area to about 6" deep.

At the end of the day, the finished driveway form.

And Lindy/Dave getting some last-minute adjustments made for the sidewalk form.  A fun and fulfilling way to spend a vacation day!