Assignment Time

Construction or Destruction? Waiting to get our work assignment for the day.

Home base

Welcome to New Orleans ! Having arrived safely, the crew establishes our home base in what was formerly the youth worship center. In a few minutes we'll leave for our first gutting assignment.

Jonathan volunteering for Family Connections of Anderson

Bruster's Girl

Wow! I saw the cutest girl at Bruster's the other day. She was polite, pretty, and working her butt off. And she really seemed like she knew what she was doing too! Of course, she didn't serve me, but I couldn't help just standing there watching her work.

It's pretty cool seeing my little girl actually working ... for real money. And she's got a car now to, well it will be her's when she pays us off. And going off on her own ... on dates and stuff. Not too crazy about that, but it's gotta happen sometime.

So my little girl is growing up. I still remember her standing there with a handful of tools, grinning up at me, wanting to help work on the car. Ahhh, those were the days. Simpler, easier, uncomplicated.

Oh well, life goes on, and things aren't so bad now. The ice cream is great too! :-) JK

Today was a great day!

On being the parent of a new contributor to our economy

How strange!

I'm really surprised at myself, but I just got mad at the manager of Bruster's Icecream here in little old Anderson, SC. She had the audacity to get angry with my little girl (not really so little, she's 16 now), because Amber had to ask for a change in her schedule due to her parents. In this case, I'm out of town and Renea's busy with our son.

Suddenly, the shoe is on the other person's foot! Usually I'm the one complaining about how teenager's don't seem to respect the workplace.
Of course, a manager can't schedule her worker's around the difficulties of a 16 year old! And yet, I'm still mad at her?

Go figure ...