Yesterday BR teamed up with CYC to do some cabin repairs and trail maintenance at Allegany State Park.  While the weather could have been better, the day turned out to be a total success, with the groups completing 6 cabins in all.  We scraped and painted, painted and scraped, played a quick game of "moss ball", and made Jim a new hat among other things...    Pete has a really great group of supporters that help him keep things running at CYC.  I'm amazed at his level of organization when it comes to several dozen children and teens. LOL 

Also, I'm very pleased to report that BR has a new convert.  Jason, the young lad we met at Home Depot while picking up supplies for the wheelchair ramp a few weeks back, made his second appearance at a BR event yesterday.  Unfortunately he was the only student to show, but he was a great asset to the team.  I'm sure we'll see more of him in the future. 

I've gone and set up a Flickr account as its not all that practical to post here directly.  You can find the photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nateolay.  Included in these photos is what I think of as one of the best BR Desktop wallpapers EVER...   Below is a preview...   Send it to your mom...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

-Nate

Spent this afternoon mowing for a very good friend and her father (95).  Wow, what a yard.  Took a solid hour of trucking back and forth with the pushmower while Brian ran the WeedEater.  If the average person walks at 4 miles per hour, that means I mowed a 4 mile strip of grass tonight...  okay, maybe 3, but still a long way to push a mower.  It was well worth it though... We got the chance to talk about changes in our lives and our friend bought dinner to say thank you.  Nice evening...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of listening to Jerry Storch, President and CEO of Toys R Us.  I was surprised to hear Jerry talk about what's important in life and to include humility on the list.  While he was here, the BR "leadership team" (i'm just a consultant) put their heads together and decided to ask for a donation to help Rob reach his goal of collecting soccer balls for Haiti.  It was a fast paced effort to get a grant proposal together, but it got done, and Jerry was polite enough to give Rob his personal email address with which to follow up.   Anything they donate will be bonus and I'm confident they'll come through for him...

Coming up this weekend, its all hands on deck as there are a few people intensive jobs going on at the same time.   Originally scheduled is the car wash and flea market that was rescheduled from April at the Living Waters Church in Olean.   Simultaneously, Pete and the CYC crew will be camping at Allegany State Park for a work weekend cleaning trails and doing maintenance.  It is my hope that people will turn out to help, though we shall see...  I'll post on facebook and perhaps someone will get the urge.   From the perspective of the recently converted, if you try it once, you'll want to keep doing it.

-Nate