Tuesday, April 5, 2017
Today was another gorgeous day!! The high was in the low 80’s with beautiful blue skies and puffy white scattered clouds. Bill had devotion this morning. He and his wife Marti are very dear friends of ours and we are so glad they are working with us here at Sumatanga. They have never been here before and are really impressed with the camp. Actually we are the only members of our team who have been to Sumatanga before. We love to spread the good word about Sumatanga. Bill’s devotion was on justice and equality and as usual had it’s funny moments but was thought provoking and resulted in some good discussion. It was then time to go to work. Bill had completed the plans for the lakeside bathroom last night and reviewed those and the materials list with Dennis and Max. Work was begun with a search of the shop for plumbing parts, then scraping of walls and some inside demolition, and cleaning of floors. Bill and Jim got lots done in one day. Richard and Patrick continued to work on the rebuilding of the new door opening and wall in Little Brown. Max, Richard and Pat hiked up the mountain to base camp where the tent platforms will be built and Richard and Pat unloaded the trailer. Of course, Max can still only supervise which he HATES. It was a big job to unload all the lumber because there were some really big boards. They were pretty tired after they hiked back down the mountain but then returned to work in Little Brown. Harriet, Marti and Anne, continued the work with candles, material and other worship props and completed that task. They then continued clean up in the Little Brown storage areas. They also completed an inventory of five large storage closets at the Retreat Center. Max worked with some of the Sumatanga guys on closing in some large double doors at the kitchen loading dock at pool camp kitchen. The maintenance guys here are great. They made sure Max didn’t over do it and lift anything over his weight limit. Max goes back to see the surgeon tomorrow so we are praying for a good report. It was a busy day but we accomplished a lot. Oh, and we had a wonderful lunch of made from scratch lasagna with garlic bread, salad and fresh chocolate chip cookies. Yep, got a feeling we are going to gain weight. Sorry we didn’t take many pictures of our work today – we were just too busy. Will try to do better tomorrow. However, don’t know how much work we will get done tomorrow. We have a horrible forecast with a Moderate risk of severe thunderstorms with possible long track tornadoes. A Moderate risk is the second highest risk level the Storm Prediction Center uses.
We will have the motorhome all secured and weather radio in hand by about 4:00am when the first line is suppose to arrive. It may be a long day. Everyone needs to be very careful and pay attention to the weather tomorrow. Praying for safety for everyone.
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