October 30, 2008
Phoenix, AZ

Terri and I went to Arizona last Friday for the annual HARDI meeting of North American heating, air conditioning and refrigeration wholesalers. Since joining Skuttle Terri has been invited each year and has developed many personal friendships among spouses in the HALO group. This was our first AZ sunset last Friday night.

On Saturday morning we were involved with the HALO Habitat for Humanity project. We hung drywall for most of the day. It was hard work but everyone felt good to have helped make a little bit of a difference for a day.
Terri is, or actually was the HARDI HALO president; her term ended with this meeting. Here she is addressing the group on Monday.

Well not really, it was a staged shot afterwards.
But this one is not staged. When she was asked to be a HALO officer five years ago she started worrying about speaking in front of the entire group by asking Grace for the opening luncheon. There were hundreds of thousands of people there.....OK, there were hundreds. During the prayer I sneaked in a picture, she did great.

Lunch with our old friends the Wheelocks from Birmingham, AL.
Terri with an old peddler she met at the meeting, I guess she felt sorry for him.....
HARDI sent some roses to our room; I tried to take credit for them but too late, she saw the card

We had a good time, saw lots of old friends, and hopefullly wrote some business
Bobby is coming tomorrow night; maybe we'll have some fish pictures for the next post.