Whether the Weather is hot or cold decides on whether Oak 5 will weather the weather.

We started off the week with a snow day. That is, typically, every child’s dream, right? Not when the alternative is staying on campus and working for the day instead of making snow forts and having snowball fights. Gone, apparently, are the days of care free youth, when I would hide and wait for the neighbor to walk out and get his morning paper and plaster the poor bath robed man into submission with snow balls. I found myself envious of tarring down ceilings and pulling up floor boards. Instead of dreaming of white sand beaches of Mexico, I was dreaming of the van ride into work.
Later that evening I counted up the number of things I had done. It amounted to James and I moving approximately 35 wardrobes that weighed upwards of two hundred pounds. Looking back I count myself lucky; we had a dolly, an elevator, no permanent back injuries and lots of coffee.
Despite our snow day, two early leave days and one delayed start day it has still been a productive week. Much of my time has been spent dry walling. I can’t speak for the whole team, but I at least, enjoy it. The work is meticulous enough to be engaging yet calm enough to keep you from going into overload mode.

It seems that things have not been running quite as smoothly for the flood recovery office. Even since we started working with block by block the decline of volunteers is noticeable. Apparently there were eight teams lost due to the weather this week alone. On the brighter side however, Melisa, our sponsor from Block by Block has just yelled across the room to me that by next Monday they will have will have reached over 10,000 volunteers that have worked with Block by Block. June 10th of 2008 is when the count started. That works out to roughly 500 volunteers a month.

Closing thought for the day-
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”-Leo Tolstoy