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Monday June 8 Recap – Caution, Men (and Women) at Work.
I’m not sure about everyone else, but I’m tired. Not just any kind of tired, but the tired that comes from a hard days work, the tired that comes along with a feeling of satisfaction of accomplishing something worthwhile while laboring long and hard. That describes our Monday to me. We accomplished quite a bit today.
Our group of eight started off the day in one of two ways. Now I bring this to your attention because there’s an observation to be made concerning how different people begin their days and there’s a generational component to that observation. At 7 a.m. this morning all of us 45 and older walked a mile to a neighboring hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center, and had breakfast. All of us 26 years old and younger stayed in bed.
Now this either speaks to the work ethic and raising of the older group, in that they are disciplined enough in their lives to maintain a schedule, to realize the benefit of going to bed early and rising out of bed early, and that they know the importance of starting an honest day’s work with the foundation of a hearty meal on which to build the day’s exploits. This would imply that the younger are more haphazard in their resting habits, unknowledgeable in the ways of good nutrition, and perhaps just plain lazy.
Or this could give evidence to the fact that the younger generation, having seen the results of the lifetimes of abuse that their elders have heaped upon their bodies, have consciously decided that they will be good stewards of the health that God has blessed them with, up to and including getting plenty of rest. This would imply that the older generation who arise early to get breakfast, rather than being living, breathing examples of a generation of go-getters fast becoming extinct, simply eat too much.
You be the judge.
Our day started for everyone at 9:00 this morning. I won’t go into every tedious detail of the day since I posted so many pictures of our various projects but I will sum up our punch list of what we’re trying to accomplish in our few days of work.
1. Paint several rooms inside the home.
2. Tear down and replace a wooden deck.
3. Expand the parking and widen a turn for emergency vehicles.
4. Build a new shelving system and expand storage.
5. Clear out a second section of trees.
We got a great start and made better progress than I would have thought possible. Donna and Dawnena Byington are painting inside. Jeremy Payne and Heath Whittemore are taking the lead on the deck and along with Jeremy Harris and myself tore down the existing. Worley Crowe and Butch Payne are working on the shelving system. Mike Haynes mowed. Bob Potts, Mike Haynes, Jeremy Harris, Jeremy Payne, Heath Whittemore, and me worked on the parking lot expansion uprooting trees, cutting them, hauling the wood and brush away, and starting to level the dirt.
We also bought a large event grill and donated it to the Boy’s Home. We hope to try it out with them before we leave Wednesday night.
We finished up at 8:30 p.m. and headed back to the dorms to clean up, do laundry, and get good nights sleep in preparation of the next day when a group of older men will arise early and have breakfast and a group of younger men will sleep in. Some things never change.
God bless and thanks for your continued prayers!
Our group of eight started off the day in one of two ways. Now I bring this to your attention because there’s an observation to be made concerning how different people begin their days and there’s a generational component to that observation. At 7 a.m. this morning all of us 45 and older walked a mile to a neighboring hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center, and had breakfast. All of us 26 years old and younger stayed in bed.
Now this either speaks to the work ethic and raising of the older group, in that they are disciplined enough in their lives to maintain a schedule, to realize the benefit of going to bed early and rising out of bed early, and that they know the importance of starting an honest day’s work with the foundation of a hearty meal on which to build the day’s exploits. This would imply that the younger are more haphazard in their resting habits, unknowledgeable in the ways of good nutrition, and perhaps just plain lazy.
Or this could give evidence to the fact that the younger generation, having seen the results of the lifetimes of abuse that their elders have heaped upon their bodies, have consciously decided that they will be good stewards of the health that God has blessed them with, up to and including getting plenty of rest. This would imply that the older generation who arise early to get breakfast, rather than being living, breathing examples of a generation of go-getters fast becoming extinct, simply eat too much.
You be the judge.
Our day started for everyone at 9:00 this morning. I won’t go into every tedious detail of the day since I posted so many pictures of our various projects but I will sum up our punch list of what we’re trying to accomplish in our few days of work.
1. Paint several rooms inside the home.
2. Tear down and replace a wooden deck.
3. Expand the parking and widen a turn for emergency vehicles.
4. Build a new shelving system and expand storage.
5. Clear out a second section of trees.
We got a great start and made better progress than I would have thought possible. Donna and Dawnena Byington are painting inside. Jeremy Payne and Heath Whittemore are taking the lead on the deck and along with Jeremy Harris and myself tore down the existing. Worley Crowe and Butch Payne are working on the shelving system. Mike Haynes mowed. Bob Potts, Mike Haynes, Jeremy Harris, Jeremy Payne, Heath Whittemore, and me worked on the parking lot expansion uprooting trees, cutting them, hauling the wood and brush away, and starting to level the dirt.
We also bought a large event grill and donated it to the Boy’s Home. We hope to try it out with them before we leave Wednesday night.
We finished up at 8:30 p.m. and headed back to the dorms to clean up, do laundry, and get good nights sleep in preparation of the next day when a group of older men will arise early and have breakfast and a group of younger men will sleep in. Some things never change.
God bless and thanks for your continued prayers!
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