But I can tell from your houses that you have been working.
Volunteers are halfway through shingling the roofs, while others have begun nailing up vinyl siding.
The Carters didn't see any work being done here because five minutes before their arrival today, everyone had gathered in the cafeteria tent and on surrounding sidewalks to see them. This is a big production, this Carter tour of the JCWP work sites, with Secret Service agents, a crowd of camera tripods and patrol cars in evidence at each stop. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are flying by helicopter from site to site, landing a short distance from the actual houses and traveling the rest of the way by motorcade. Usually, the Carters prefer to spend every day of the blitz build week with hammers in hand, concentrating on building their teams' houses. Last summer, during the JCWP in Hungary, Jimmy Carter remembers being skeptical upon hearing plans for this year's scattered-site build.