Frannie worked on small jobs at ground level and did a major clean up around the site while Frank, Kent and I continued sheathing the roof in preparation for a metal roof.
This build was very different than our first in that we got a chance to not only do some serious painting at one site but we walked onto a concrete slab last Monday morning and spent much of our two weeks building a new Habitat home from the ground up. During our stay we worked with two on site construction supervisors, Robert and Frank along with visits from the overall construction manager, Alan, and our local volunteer coordinator, Nadia. This particular affiliate utilizes Care-A-Vanner teams throughout the winter with major groups coming in January and February after they have spend Christmas in the north and headed south for the duration of the winter.
Frannie and I will spend a week in this area doing some exploring and site seeing. We have located the Highlands Hammock State Park which has bike trails and many walking paths and boardwalks through various sub-tropical environments. We plan to spend some time enjoying the out of doors without a hammer in our hands. Hey, we'll carry a camera instead and share some of what we see. How does that sound?
Before I close out this edition of "On The Road", Frannie has another installment for you to read. We have had many comments about not only this blog but the fun facts that Frannie is discovering and sharing here as well. Please feel free to make comments via the blog or through email. We love to here from y'all.
NEW THINGS I LEARNED ON THE ROAD:
Since we are staying at a campground in Lake Placid, Fla.,a little background history might be interesting, especially for the northern New Yorkers. Lake Placid has endured a number of name changes since the early 1900’s,the last being Wicco, changed by the railroad. By 1926 the Florida building boom resulted in tourists flocking to the town and business sprang up everywhere. In 1927 Dr. Melville Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System for cataloging library books,(you do support your local library…don’t you?) arrived in the area. Finding the area similar to his native Lake Placid, N.Y. due to the lakes, Dr. Dewey had visions of a resort town as the semitropical branch of the Lake Placid Club in the Adirondack Mountains, which he had formed in 1893. In 1927, at Dewey’s urging, the town’s named was changed to Lake Placid by legislative act. Now, wasn’t that interesting? Stay tuned for more interesting and useless facts as we travel “On the Road.”
2 comments:
That guy in the picture with you looks like a Wypij!
I had wondered about the Lake Placid name thing actually.. very cool info :)
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?.
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