After a knee replacement 12 years ago and a miracle rehab, Mr. St. Hart’s career volunteering for the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate took off — although he had started volunteering for Habitat at a low level with the deteriorating knee 14 years ago. By the time he retired, he had helped build about 20 houses, now pushed out to approximately a hundred houses during a decade of retirement and including two Jimmy & Rosslyn Carter Work Projects, as Safety Guy when we hosted here in LA and on a five-day, foundation-to-move-in blitz-build house in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Ironically, HFH GLA has been housed in various rental properties over the years, so finally buying land (where existing structures will eventually be replaced by a totally new design and adding a training center to the combination) is a Big Deal for HFHGLA.
The caches in the St. Hart's 'Hood series are placed in locations where we spend time and mostly mimic favorite cache types we've found over the years — this one is inspired by a popular, highly favororite'd cache hidden by j_czerwin in downtown Long Beach.
The cache should serve as a good Travel Bug Hotel. It started with three trackables and various trinkets — and as of one week after publication the 3 have been picked up and there are 6 trackables residing in it. There's still plenty of room for more.
There is parking space for 2 cars very near the cache, and plenty of curb space 20+ yards away, but be sure to not block the gated driveway/entrances to Habitat or to the freeway environs because big vehicles seem to come and go from those gates surprisingly often (presumably, Sundays excepted)..
Because this location is a back-street dead-end with a fence where the wind blows litter in, you may have an excellent opportunity for a little CITO. (Please!)
And please try to re-hide the cache in the fairly obvious location and maybe with some loose natural cover so the twist is not visible.