Habitat for Humanity

On Saturday, I accomplished one of my Bucket List items.

Chris and I, and our friend, Sandra, along with my friend, Lisa, volunteered at a Habitat for Humanity house.

It all began on the drive to the Dirty Girl Mud Run at the end of last month.  Lisa works for Habitat and during our long drive, it came up that helping out at one of the builds would be another fun group event.

We tried to arrange a weekend that worked for most, if not all of us, but nothing was jelling.  So, I just told Lisa what worked for me & Chris.  Initially, Sandra was going to be out of town, but her plans changed and she was able to join us after all.

Up like a regular workday, we grabbed some coffee at a gas station and headed west to Hammond, not really knowing what to expect, other than we would be indoors painting.

Between the 4 of us, Chris & I did the trim work and Lisa & Sandra had the walls of the 3 bedrooms.  Yep, Chris & I had the somewhat painstakingly detailed duties!  We used mud putty on the nails, taped the 3 windows and got to work painting the base boards and trim of all 3 bedrooms (to include 2 closets ~~ which for some reason had trim INSIDE around the door frame!!) plus the front and back of the 3 6-paneled doors.  Only our first bedroom allowed us to be a tad "sloppy" as Lisa & Sandra were coming after us to paint the walls.  But in the other 2, we had to be precise and careful.  Ingenious guy that he is, Chris searched out and found a piece of wood trim that he could use when painting the outside of the trim, so as not to run onto the wall paint.

At the end of our day, Chris & Lisa did a bit of painting in the kitchen, too, then we rinsed our brushes and rollers ... and ourselves a bit. 

The home's future owner was there, too, along with a friend of hers.  They were doing the trim work in the living room and along the hallway.

As we were leaving, she came to thank us and gave us a hug!

It was a fulfilling experience.  One that we plan to repeat in Colorado!!