This morning I got up at 0600 to join the Air National Guard and Habitat for Humanity to build houses up in Ventura/Oxnard. My friend Linda is a Lieutenant in the Air Force and she invited me to volunteer- we thought it was a great way to start off the new year and who can say no to good karma?
Construction work is harder than it looks, I kid you not. It is pretty exhausting holding up that heavy hammer and pounding in nail after nail. I was pretty lucky that I didn't hurt myself too badly (everyone knows how clumsy I am) although I did hit my thumb a couple of times. I kept my gloves on all day to minimize the risk of getting a bloody stump of a thumb.
There were a lot of different projects going on... some people were dry-walling, some were installing a furnace in one of the houses. Linda and I decided to join the big guys in framing a house. I learned a lot about putting the frame of a house together, it was pretty cool. My hips were pretty sore by the end of the day, my toolbelt weighed almost as much as I did.
Linda and I were awfully proud of ourselves.
Linda and Kaci working hard to get those nails nailed.
This is harder than it looks!
So the next activity she invited me to is the Camp Pendleton Mud Run, which is grueling 10K run with hills, tire obstacles, river crossings, two 5-foot walls with mud on both sides, tunnel crawl, slippery hill climb, and the final 30-foot mud pit. . Needless to say, I passed.
Construction work is harder than it looks, I kid you not. It is pretty exhausting holding up that heavy hammer and pounding in nail after nail. I was pretty lucky that I didn't hurt myself too badly (everyone knows how clumsy I am) although I did hit my thumb a couple of times. I kept my gloves on all day to minimize the risk of getting a bloody stump of a thumb.
There were a lot of different projects going on... some people were dry-walling, some were installing a furnace in one of the houses. Linda and I decided to join the big guys in framing a house. I learned a lot about putting the frame of a house together, it was pretty cool. My hips were pretty sore by the end of the day, my toolbelt weighed almost as much as I did.
Linda and I were awfully proud of ourselves.
Linda and Kaci working hard to get those nails nailed.
This is harder than it looks!
So the next activity she invited me to is the Camp Pendleton Mud Run, which is grueling 10K run with hills, tire obstacles, river crossings, two 5-foot walls with mud on both sides, tunnel crawl, slippery hill climb, and the final 30-foot mud pit. . Needless to say, I passed.
3 comments:
It was actually freezing, about 45 degrees!
uh... mud run? are you crazy? do you really like washing out mud from your nether-regions?
that pic of linda is too small... BIGGER plz. (oh gee, i hope she doesn't read this. hah hah)
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