The Payson Habitat was not currently building any houses, but instead doing projects called "Brush with Kindness," generally what this means is they find people in need of small repairs to their homes and help them out. Usually this is for a disabled or elderly person, and often involves paining and other minor works. We worked to paint the outside of a garage. This sounded like an easy task at first, but the garage was much larger than anticipated, and there was a lot of detail and trim work to do. I think we ended up running out of paint and time and were unable to totally finish, but the amount of work 20 people are able to get done in one day is definitely a huge benefit to any project.
Once I got back and cleaned up, Diane Hillwig was able to come up from Pheonix to take me out to dinner. It's always nice to see familiar faces in such far away places. We first went to the bike shop so I could get a new tire as mine had been routinely giving me flats. I can't remember where we went for dinner, but I had fish and it was most excellent. The waitress was very intrigued by my tan lines, so I gave her the quick rundown on what I have been doing all summer. I had to get back to the group because it was my groups night to do laundry.
We had to first stop at WalMart to stock up on detergent which took longer than expected. I guess they were unable to process our non-profit info so they ended up giving us a $25 gift card instead. We got to the laundromat and began loading the machines. One of the machines ate our money, but we could hear the quarters dropping into the bottom of the machine. We ended up moving the machine to retrieve our money before moving it to another machine,
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