We had supper Monday evening with Bruce & Charlotte Tremaine. Bruce is the lead carpenter for building projects at Logan Valley Christian Retreat, where I have been volunteering and where we both volunteered the month of Oct 2011. Bruce also Pastors a small church in Ellington, MO. I enjoy working with the people down there.
Kathy drove back home Tuesday, to resume her babysitting duties ;-). I drove the motor home back after work yesterday. I had planned on driving back Saturday but the weather forecast changed my mind.
During the week some of the guys ran the water line to the new building. They buried the line 3-4' deep, FAR deeper than necessary, 18" would probably be fine in southern Missouri. The backhoe has a 24" wide bucket so it was also a wide trench. I had to drive across the backfilled trench to get to the road. I was a little concerned about driving over the trench when it was dry, they just pushed the backfill back into the trench, although David worked hard to make sure the surface was well compacted. It was supposed to start raining Friday night and keep raining for several days. I knew I didn't want to drive over the trench was the soil was saturated, so I cleaned up after work, got the motor home ready for the road and left a little after 5.
We unloaded the motor home this morning and I'm ready to say enough for the day, and "rest" the remainder of the day. It was hot working down there this week, and even though I enjoyed it, it was tiring. I actually worked about 35 hours for the week. I had my "electrician's hat" on most of the week. I set boxes in both the walls and ceilings, set the fans in the upstairs bathrooms and wired up the lights in one half of the lower level (a walk out basement). I also framed an upstairs "closet" floor above the stairway down to the lower level.
Dave Williams, Dave & Sue are the camp Directors, has always made it known that he appreciates my coming down there. He gave me a Thank You card when I left yesterday. When I opened it after getting home last night I found that in addition to the Thank You note the envelope contained a $200 check for "gas money". It was a nice gesture, although not needed.
We received a much needed inch of rain while I was gone. We are supposed to get more over the next several days, and we can use it.
In case you don't follow Kelsey's Facebook postings. One of the events I missed this past week. Lydia helping Grammy clean up dishes, after mixing up brownie batter.
Have a great day. May God bless you and yours.
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