Sunday, July 20, 2025
We arrived at Covenant Hills Christian Camp, outside of Cabot, VT, on 7/11 to start our weeks on the NOMADS Disaster Rebuild project here. We were met by Herman and Janis and shown the RV sites. It’s so good to be working with them again. After doing all the things required to get Fred set up, we sat down for a late lunch and took time to look out the window for the first time. Wow! What a beautiful setting we will enjoy for the next six weeks. We are at the top of a hill looking out across a valley toward some tall, beautiful mountains. It is such a quiet and peaceful place. Cell service isn’t great depending on your carrier so sometimes you need to go inside the dining room if you need to do some online work, but Starlink works fine. Depending on which roads you take, it’s around 6 miles to Cabot from the camp.
On Saturday, we were glad to welcome Jean and Larry to the camp and later that afternoon we got to welcome our final team member, Jayne. We have previously worked with all 5 of our team members and they are all leaders, so we knew this week would be great. Sunday the team all went to church together and ate lunch at Wayside Restaurant and had our opening meeting Sunday afternoon.
Monday we all went to Sally’s house, about 25 minutes from camp, to continue the work on her flood damaged home – damage from the 2024 flood. We were blessed to have Herman and Janis with us to fill us in on all the work up to now. NOMADS raised the trailer 8 inches and replaced/repaired the underbelly of the trailer as well as installing the underpinning in previous weeks. This is actually the seventh week of the NOMADS project here. Our team completed the last of the outside work and began on the inside work. Monday, we began installing subflooring and drywall throughout the house. We also worked on finishing the drywall. We will continue this work next week.
On Wednesday Max and Herman began working on Rosa’s house. Rosa’s house needs a new skylight installed and some roofing replaced. Jayne joined them on Thursday. They have removed the rotten wood, replaced the decking and have begun the installation of the new roof to keep it dry for the weekend. Next week we will replace the skylight and repair the damaged drywall inside.
It was an extremely hot week by Vermont standers, with temperatures and humidity well above normal most days (upper 90’s heat index) so we had to take some extra breaks and work to stay hydrated. The first part of next week is predicted to be much better with high temperatures in the 70s – nice. After the hard, hot week, the team stopped on the way back to camp Thursday night at a pizza restaurant – Pizza Man. It just happened to have an ice cream parlor in its back yard. It was a nice ending to a busy work week. Friday was laundry day since we hadn’t done laundry since leaving SC so no fun excursions yet – maybe next week.
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