We spent three weeks in Americus, Georgia working with Habitat on a lot of different projects. Jeff and Laura Walker, Chris and Tom Gibson, both from Michigan. Carol and Bill James from Pennsylvania and of course David and Mary Vandeveld from Michigan.
Lots of repairs were made in the Global Village of Habitat and lots of repair and painting in four apartments that are in house belonging to Habitat that are used as guest housing when there are conferences and training classes.
I spent most of my time helping Mary with office work and folding tee shirts again like I did last year. Must have done about 1000 this time.
Since the Safety Program requirements are being stepped up I did lots of computer work on that and also helped Mary get ready for the Affiliate Conference in Atlanta in Atlanta and also the DRT training that is being held in Americus this week.
We did have some free time on the weekend and enjoyed visiting Kononea Farms where Habitat was started, the boyhood home of former President Jimmy Carter, a museum in the old Plains, Georgia high school about the Carters. On Sunday March 26 we had the pleasure of going to Marathan Baptist Church to President Carters Sunday School Class. It starts at 10 am and people started forming a line at 4:15am. We were lucky to have made reservations thru Habitat. It was a great service and we got to have a picture made with them afterwards. President Carter told Larry he liked his beard,
We left Americus on Saturday April 1 and came to Pine Mountain Georgia which was called Chipley until 1958. Larry had lived in Hamilton which is about 8 miles from here, and went to school there in 1952 and 1953. His Dad had a barber shop there.
We had dinner last night with Carol Bowman and Kim Harris who are Care A Vanners and today we are CHILLING. It is raining and going to be stormy so Larry is working on taxes and I am doing bills and catching up on other things.
Tomorrow we plan to go to the Little White House in Warm Spring Georgia where President Franklin D Roosevelt came for his polo.
My brother was there when he was about 14 for treatment.I remember visiting him there when I was 5. Also going over to Fort Benning to military museum. We were going to Callaway Gardens but our friends encouraged us not to do that as things have sort of fallen apart with the upkeep of the gardens . After all I have seen many azaleas and dogwoods in my life without paying $30 to drive thru and look.
After this we are going back to Bainbridge to visit family and then start working our way to Indianapolis and then on to Madisonville Ky before heading home early May.
