Build Day: Kansas City

This morning, we woke rather early for a build day as our host was far from the build site. We worked with Habitat KC at two different sites, one was a concrete house and one a home renkvation where some did yard work, put together a shed, and some put siding on the house. I was fortunate enough to snag a spot on siding crew. Siding will always have a special place in my heart as it is the first thing I ever did working at any Habitat, and have almost always ended up on that project at random sites since. This time it was concrete siding though, so things were a tad different. 

At some point in the day, our build site turned into CSI as Borch found a bone (she believed it to be a clavicle) while digging in the yard. Police came to investigate, who then called animal control on a neighboring home (all turned out to be well there though). We shuttled to the office to eat our lunch, but they had to keep Borch while more folks came to investigate, so we took many a funny photo of her and Katie getting into the back of a squad car. Good times. Turns out the bone was not human, and we were allowed to return to work. Yippee for happy endings and exciting days. 

In the afternoon, then other leaders and I had to run errands to pick up donated food and stuff from a bike shop. While we were at the bike shop, we got to all try riding a pennyfarthing bike (which Dan had wanted to do forever). I could barely reach the pedals, but everyone had a blast. 

We relocated to the lobby and giant lawn for the evening as our host site needed us to vacate during youth group hours. We had to push back out town hall night to this evening because of our free day, so we got to do it outside on a fairly beautiful evening. 

I don't know if I've explained town hall or not, but each week we get together and each share our highs and lows of the week with each other. We then discuss whatever important issues need to be addressed and then riders bring up any pressing issues they want to discuss. Finally we close with our snaps box, which is basically a box that people drop snaps, kudos, compliments, shoutouts, silly jokes, whatever into throughout the week. Through the highs and lows as well as the snaps box, it's really fun to hear stories you've missed throughout the week or to hear awesome things that our teammates are doing. 

Overall, it was a good day. I've been fighting a migraine since noon, and town hall nights are always draining for me because I can see all the gaps I need to fill as a leader and all the mistakes I ever make become very apparent during town hall. With that said, I must sleep. Tomorrow is only 56 miles, and I am determined to not let my calf/knee talk to my brain (aka I'm finishing the day on a bike no matter what).