Showing posts with label Hobbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hobbs. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Back To Work

Well, Easy and I are back on the volunteer trail.  We left Deming last Friday enroute to Hobbs, NM and Habitat for Humanity.  Last year I signed up for four weeks in Hobbs and ended up staying nine months.  This year I'm signed up for two weeks.  We'll see how that turns out.  In route to Hobbs I stopped at Oliver Lee State Park in Alamogordo, NM.

Oliver Lee State Park in Alamogordo, NM.
Oliver Lee State Park in Alamogordo, NM.
Oliver Lee State Park in Alamogordo, NM.
Oliver Lee State Park in Alamogordo, NM.



From there I stopped at Brantley Lake State Park in Carlsbad, NM.

Brantley Lake State Park in Carlsbad, NM
Brantley Lake State Park in Carlsbad, NM

Brantley Lake State Park in Carlsbad, NM
Brantley Lake State Park in Carlsbad, NM


My plan is to volunteer in Hobbs for two weeks then move on to a Llama rescue in Kerrville, TX. from there on to Canyon Lake, TX with the NOMADS for rebuilding homes destroyed or damaged by flash flooding from a tropical storm that occurred on Memorial weekend, 2015. From there I saunter over to Lexington, TX to help out on an organic farm.  Some time in April I should be arriving in Livingston, TX to volunteer at Escapees CARE which is sorta like an assisted living facility for RVers.

McKinley Street in Hobbs, NM
McKinley Street in Hobbs, NM

This street above is McKinley Street in Hobbs, NM.  When I first arrived here in January 2015 they were just finishing the second house from the left.  Now, March 2016 we are completing the sixth house and completing a new block of home owners in this neighborhood.  The next phase is to repeat the process in the lot seen in the foreground.

Leonard



Sunday, April 5, 2015

How to have fun when you retire!

Take a break from your work.

Put on some good music.

And be who you really are!


Taking a break from volunteer house building with habitat for humanity.




Sunday, March 8, 2015

A Future Homeowner

Here's a future Habitat home owner and her children standing in what will soon be her living-room.


Below is her own personal ground breaking ceremony!


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What's scarier than a woman with a gun?

A woman with a nail gun!


Way to go Joan!


Monday, February 23, 2015

Habitat for Humanity



I've been volunteering with Habitat for Humanity for the past month in Hobbs, NM.  I will probably be here for an additional four weeks.





The Habitat for Humanity RV CARE-A-VANNERS is a volunteer program for anyone who travels in a recreational vehicle, wants to build Habitat houses and have fun doing it. RV Care-A-Vanners welcomes people of all ages, from all walks of life who want to pick up a hammer and help change lives.  

There are ample opportunities to learn and plenty of meaningful work for everyone. No previous construction experience is necessary!  Find out more at http://www.habitat.org/rv.

Click here to view more pictures of the building projects I precipitated on.

If you aren't having fun whatever you are doing...

You need to be doing something else!

Leonard