RHD

I had a great time at Rurual Housing Development the other week. It was good to get up and out of bed early on a Saturday and go help people become self-sufficient by building their own homes. It is an awesome program for low-income families where the government pays to build them a house, but they have to learn how to do it and give at least 30hrs. of service a week.

They clump about 5 families together, and then that "team" rotates working on each house. that way they have lots of man-power per house, and they can help each other build. If I were doing it, I would want to be the last family to roof, pave or spackle so that the entire crew had practice doing it on the four previous homes. Then, all these families are neighbors and they babysit each other's kids. It is really a great thing!

So this time our site was in Pason. We shoveled, swept, nailed, dug out pavement, and hooked these big wooden roof parts to a machine that lifted them up for the men to attach. I kind of felt like home building was quilting, except large scale. So many measurements and exactness required. Always remember, measure twice, cut ONCE!"

Good old Josh Calvert is a PD (program director) for RHD. We had fun sweeping and playing together. Good times.