Today went well. I walked over and had breakfast in the dining hall. It was "do it yourself" instant oatmeal.
At 9 AM Kathy and I met with Patty, the volunteer coordinator. She talked to us some more about what we wanted to do while we were here and then had a guy give us 2 hour tour of the facility.
For lunch we had potato soup, NOT like Grandma Ruthie used to make, but edible.
Supper was chicken and I think Kathy called them lentils. She like it. I thought it was barely edible. One of the guys said that we were having fish and chips for supper. The chicken was a huge disappointment. We ended up driving into Lindale so that I cold get some Long John Silver's fish.
At 1 PM I started "work". I helped build forms for a stair on the new building. Tomorrow we hope to finish the forms for the first stair and start on the forms for a 2nd stair.
Kathy did some painting and staining in the afternoon and is in charge of organizing the paint room. Starting Monday she is going to make soup for the "pay to eat" on site restaurant. They basically gave her free rein to try whatever she wants.
Kathy just talked to Drew and we are getting closer to firming up a date for us to go out and help him with his house. He will probably be moving in next week. We probably won't arrive out there until maybe mid-January. I don't want to be travelling over the Christmas/New Years holidays and it will take us between one and two weeks to get make the trip, unless we really push.
Temps were in the mid 50's today with the low forecast to be 34 tonight. Tomorrow it is supposed to be near 60, and sunny again.
We have met a lot of interesting people so far. A lot of the people who work/volunteer here are Canadians. Ron, my "boss", and his wife are Canadians. Patty, the volunteer coordinator is Canadian and Rob, the guy who gave us the tour, is also Canadian. We had a 4 man crew working on the forms, we were slow <grin>. Ron and I were two of them. The third guy if from Brazil. He is here for the school but also works on site. The fourth guy and his family have lived in many countries. They are trying to figure out what the Lord wants them to do now.
Time to get to bed. Good night to all and may the Lord bless you and yours.
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