Engle Martin's Fence Building & Extremely Chased Wet T-Shirt Contest

Here we all are, except Joel Steber who was a wee
bit late and is pictured later wielding a hammer. The East Lake
team is (R-L) Joan Moreno, Lynnice Bell, Linda Wright, Brent Perich,
Jackie Harris, Arnetra Miliner, Lisa Provost, Quatis Sims, Yanwen Guo and Ravi Reddy.

Atlanta's East Lake Park team arrived at our site at 10AM. Thinking the building of a fence would involve some serious manual labor, I came bearing Flying Biscuits and plenty of coffee. The coffee run resulted in a large quantity of half and half spilling on the floor board of my car. This, I knew, would be unpleasant later, but I had no time to attend to it then. I took the floor mat out to dry in the sun and hoped for the best. What really mattered to me was, when we got started, it was not raining. Yet.

We gathered together in a lovely area of benches and arbors that had been constructed by another group of volunteers 3 years prior. There, we fueled ourselves with carbohydrates and caffeine while our volunteer coordinators, Doug and Erin, explained to us what we'd be doing that day. Our mission presented, we headed for the fence timbers.

While some of us got the fence started, those of us whose services (concrete mixing and pouring) were not immediately required set to work mulching the areas all around the playground that were looking the worse for wear. We were so industrious, in fact, that before lunch, we'd finished the portion of fence Doug and Erin thought it would take us all day to do. We returned to the wood pile to lay out the pieces for the remainder of the fence.

All that effort made us hungry. When I called the nice lady at MoJo pizza and asked her opinion regarding how much pizza we would need, she sounded kind of shocked when I upped it by an entire pizza. "We're building a fence here!" I reiterated. Sure enough, we ate all that pizza. And then we built the rest of that fence. In the pouring rain.



I learned something about Engle Martin folks that day - we are hardcore. Oh, and also, I learned that half and half is nearly impossible to get out of carpet. Currently, it still really stinks in my car. Here we all are again, a little on the damp side - (L-R, again): Lynnice, Arnetra, Jackie, Brent, Lisa, Linda (trying to hide), Joel, Ravi, Joan and Quatis.