Lots of Changes have taken place. Feb 7 thru March 14, 2016

This is going to be a hard post for me to write as things have changed so with Larry and me with Habitat for Humanity here in Dade City, Florida.
The Habitat Affiliate has been near and dear to our hearts since 2008 but we started to notice a few changes last year and actually had some reservations about coming down again but had already committed to December through March and thought it can't be worse than last year.LET me tell you if you have a GUT feeling about something GO WITH IT.

We as Care A Vanners have always enjoyed getting together after work and discussing the workday and sharing some snacks and along with a "Happy hour" drink if someone so desired.  Well we were told at the beginning of the the first build that we could get together but not ask people to bring a snack.   Whatever.   There were three couples that were not signed up with CAV and all they wanted to do in the afternoon was drink, play cards and stay up late and party.  There was a New Years Eve party held and it was not good.   Too much drinking, loud and obnoxious
The safety on the job site was less than what it should have been and just was not what Habitat is all about.     Larry and I tried to talk with the powers that be such as the Executive Director and got no where.   Later he came back to us and stated that we were the problem causing the tension so we decided it was in our best interest to leave.   There was one person on the job site who thinks he knows everything there is to know about building and he is dumber than a box of rocks.  However he has got people SNOWED.   He and his wife sabotaged us big time,.

Now that I have expressed my negative things I will tell you all the good things that have come out of this,

First of all we both realized how tired we both were and how much we both needed downtime.  However the day after moving to another RV Park I flew to Indianapolis to be with Ally for a week.
Arriving to 4 inches of snow was fun but we had a good week and then I came back to Florida.
Larry and I have been trained as Master Safety Trainers for Habitat and have been asked to go different places to train the Affiliates to have competent safety persons on the job site. We have two sessions scheduled so far, one in Charleston WV and another in Lapeer Mi.  We are excited about that. Also we have decided that we need a new adventure for 2017 and plan to go west.   We have already been contacted by several CAV that we have worked with before wanting to know where we are going and if they can join us.

One of my favorite sayings is  "When God shuts a door he opens a window" and he has certainly done that.

Madison Halstead our 17 year old granddaughter flew into Tampa Fl. last week to visit with us for two weeks.   We have had lots of adventures including the Strawberry Festival in Plant City Fl and tomorrow we are going to Tarpon Springs and doing a boat cruise to an island to do some shelling.
Thursday we will go to Myakka City to see the Lipizzaner Horses in training. She is such a joy to have around all us OLD people.   We borrowed a guitar from a friends so she could play while here.

She flies back to Virginia on Sunday and we leave for Americus, Ga then Easter in Bainbridge, Ga, then Tuscaloosa Al for a 2 week build and then on to Indy to see the Grands and then Charleston WV and then HOME for about a month.

Later.