RVing With a Purpose

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Max went to morning meeting today with Gumby in his pocket. Dan had given him a heads up last night that things were going to be different today. And they were. This morning Max and Mark headed to Home Depot for supplies for Dennis’s house and after returning with those went to a house a couple blocks away to assess the situation surrounding a water heater. While they were doing that the ladies began hanging drywall on the ceiling of the bathroom at Dennis’s. There are many ins and outs and not an easy task, with many cuts. There was wonder board to be installed on the walls around the tub. It got crowded in that little bathroom at times today. Big sheets of drywall and four to seven people. We were dancing around in there at times. But again today as every day, it was a good day. God continues to bless and keep us safe. Progress continues to be made for our homeowners. And now we have another weekend in the beautiful Lower Keys.

Dennis has been wanting us to try out the paddle boat he built ever since we started working on his house. Today a couple of us did. Fun.

The team went to King’s Seafood Market for our Thursday night dinner. The seafood was good again but the real hit was the Fried Key Lime Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

This morning’s devotion led by Sue was about thankfulness.  We went around the room and we all talked about three things for which we are thankful.  It was a good reminder of just how much we should be thanking God for each day.

This morning Mark and Lisa went back to the house on Lower Sugarloaf Key to remove the sink temporarily so the contractor could measure for the new counter top. Afterwards they reinstalled the sink and were back on Big Pine Key by lunch. The rest of the team worked at Dennis’s house mostly on remodeling the bathroom.  The sink at Dennis’s also had to be uninstalled for the contractor to measure for the countertops.  It wasn’t a surprise that immediately on the completion for the template, Dennis got the sink reinstalled.  He is enjoying having a kitchen with water for the first time in two years.  It was another good day.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

It was another beautiful day in the lower Keys. This morning we met in Virgie and Dan’s RV for morning devotion and meeting. We had the devotion today and talked about paying attention. If we are to be like Jesus, we must pay attention to others, their needs, their hearts, the things that are important to them. We must do this for the people we lead, work with and really importantly, our family.

After devotion, the rest of the team returned to Dennis’s while Max and Anne went back to the house on Atlantis Street to complete the closet. We spent the morning working on the closet and also putting a couple of toggle bolts in the closet we finished yesterday. It just wasn’t quite as stable as we wanted and the toggle bolts took care of that perfectly. After lunch we installed the last two supports in the walk-in, vacuumed up the drywall dust and dirt called our assignment complete. Next we went back to Marathon to pick up more supplies. We are becoming regulars at Home Depot and are getting pretty good at finding what we need.

 

The rest of the team got the sink temporarily installed and plumbing working in Dennis’s kitchen. With some plywood for counter tops, he feels like he is ready to start cooking. He is even putting a few items in his cabinets. The baseboards and caulking were also completed today and they began reworking the bathroom. The team will be spending less time at Dennis’s over the next week or so while we are waiting on counter top and windows to be installed. We are almost done. There are several other homes waiting for work.

 

Monday, February 10, 2020

This week will be a little different. We have two other volunteer groups working here at the church and in the area. Some of the new volunteers are sleeping on the floor here at the church and using the kitchen and fellowship hall for meals so this morning we meet in the Al-Anon meeting room. This morning Virgie shared from Mark 1:35. She talked about us finding our solitary place to get along with God and communicate. Jesus’ got along to pray to his father and we are to do likewise. Dan closed sharing this funny.

Today was a different work day. When we arrived at Dennis’s we discovered Trent, another worker with the conference, had gone there Friday and finished the bedroom flooring. What a wonderful surprise. Gumby struck again! That’s what Dan had planned for some of our team to do today. So, today Max and Anne went to the house Max worked on part of last week to to measure the closets and then to Home Depot to purchase all the necessary supplies for completing the closet. We completed one of the closets today and began the other bedroom closet. Dan and Sue completed the window trim that Sue and Lisa began last week. Then they were back at Dennis’s to join Virgie and Lisa and Mark continuing to work on base boards, caulking, installing a new window in the bathroom and working on the sink plumbing. As soon as the counter top people come Wednesday to do their measuring, we plan to install a temporary sink in the kitchen and then the bathroom sink can be demoed and the bathroom remodel move forward. Another busy day serving the people of the lower Keys.