RVing With a Purpose

Sunday, July 09, 2017

Today was another sunny day but not quite so hot. Hope the slightly lower temperature last into our work week. Heat index was about 10 degrees cooler today.

We all visited Branch Street UMC today for worship. It was an extremely welcoming church with wonderful, energetic worship. The music was great and the message as well. Branch Street was flooded last November due to Hurricane Matthew. They just got back into their sanctuary last week and still have lots of work to do before the Sunday School rooms are ready but they are slowly making progress.

 

 

After service we all went to Panera Bread for lunch and sat around in the a/c visiting afterward for a while. It was then back to the campground where everyone planned an afternoon nap. We binge watched more Christmas movies, walked for our exercise today, and prepared for the work week.

Saturday, July 08, 2017

After our busy day yesterday we decided to take it easy today. After unlocking the gate to the campground about 7am and a few regular maintenance tasks we settled down and cooked pancakes for breakfast and covered them with strawberries and whipped cream. Mmmm Good.

Then a little house cleaning and a grocery run. This afternoon we installed a sound bar under the bedroom TV. We then watched some Christmas movies since it’s July. In this oppressive heat watching Christmas in July movies in the air conditioning just seems to make it a little less hot. We also worked on some project reports that we needed to send in to the NOMADS office and then some more movies.

All in all a quiet Saturday.

Friday, July 7 2017

No sleeping in for us. We were up about 5:15 and on the road at 6:15, headed to Fayetteville. It was another wonderful sunrise. We stopped at Bojangles on the way out of town for a biscuit. Yep – not healthy but we were planning to ride 10 miles so that makes up for part of it. Right??

 

Nice drive with little traffic. There was one area on the side of the interstate that was filled with beautiful sunflowers. And then another filled with day lilies. Nice. We found the southern trail head for the Cape Fear River Trail without a problem. We weren’t the first in the parking lot. We got our bikes off the rack and hit the trail before 8:00. We wanted to get our ride in before the temperature got too high. The trail is a 5.3 mile paved rail trail through a wooded and marshy area. The trail was mostly shaded and flat but had enough hills to get a good workout. There were boardwalks and bridges and one covered bridge. Just as we started down the trail we road past a pretty deer. She didn’t seem at all afraid of us. It was a really nice ride and enough shade to make it comfortable. The Cape Fear trail is part of the East Coast Greenway, a series of bike trails that will eventually go from Maine to Key West. This was the first section of the EC Greenway we have ridden but hopefully it won’t be the last.

 

After completing our ride we went to the North Carolina Veterans Park and the Airborne and Special Operations Museum. Max was stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville several times while in the army. There was no museum at that time. We picked up a brochure on the ASOM at the welcome center when we entered NC and since Max was in Special Ops we knew we wanted to see the museum. The exhibits focus on the history of the US Army Airborne and Special Operations units from World War II to the present. It was much larger than we expected and was very well done. The admission is free, with a donation requested and is well worth a visit if you are in the area.

 

 

After the museum we crossed the street to to the Freedom Memorial Park and found a geocache to mark our visit here. We then returned to Lumberton and spent the afternoon doing laundry.  We had a nasty thunderstorm come through late in the afternoon but it gave us a really nice sunset. Nice bookends today. No plans for tomorrow yet but we will see.

 

Thursday, July 6, 2017

It’s NOMADS Friday again! The day started off sunny and hot. And of course we started the day once again with devotion in our RV. Morris and Karen had today’s devotion on taking our Christianity seriously. Not that we have to be all serious and have no fun but really seek to live our lives for Christ. Christianity is not just a word but a way of life – the way we choose to live each day.

After devotion it was on to work. We all worked really hard this morning and got a lot accomplished. Max and Anne finished the laminate flooring in the sitting room. Karen and Rita completed the caulking and painting in the bathroom. Suzanne worked on painting and repainting doors in the bath and bedroom. Morris and Dave continued to work on trim elements – quarter-round, door and window trim. We all went back to our RVs for lunch to get into the air conditioning. It was a welcome reprieve from the horrible heat. When it was time to go back to work the thermometer was reading 95 degrees and the heat index was 105. We continued to work to complete the few little things remaining but it was hard to push through the stifling heat. Jeff our construction supervisor returned this afternoon and seemed pleased with the quantity and quality of our work. He realized that the owners can not move back into their bedroom until he gets the air conditioning working. Hopefully that will happen next week. We completed the bed and bathroom – our goal for this week. And the sitting room is coming right along. YEA! We had to take more breaks than usual this afternoon.

 

We are hoping for a break in the high temps for next week. Otherwise – it’s our Friday and we have 3 days to rest. We plan to go to Fayetteville tomorrow for a little side trip. We will try to get some good pictures. Thanks for reading our blog and commenting. It encourages us to keep it up when we hear from you.