Rain

The forecast calls for rain for the next several days.  Heavy rain at times.  Today it was 1 or 2 inches.  And I’m sure we got it.  The rain started in earnest as we were walking to the cafeteria for morning devotions. The roar of the downpour on the metal roof of the building made it hard to hear what was being said.

Naturally, the inside jobs are the ones that were given priority.  The problem was: getting from one inside job to another required one to travel outside, so we still managed to get wet.  This area is so flat that the water just pools, resulting in flooding all over the place.  So getting around without running into one of those large puddles was a challenge.

A few of us finished the trim around the air conditioner in the kitchen pantry room and then a few of the women spent some time rearranging and returning all the stuff that had been removed from that room prior to cutting a big hole in the wall.  Kind of a big job since that room was packed full of stuff.  It also needed a good cleaning since we created a lot of dust when cutting that big hole.

I should have taken an after-picture. Once all the stuff was back in the room, the shelves were piled high to the ceiling.

The job list seems to be getting longer, but the items take less time.  I replaced a pressure relief valve on a water heater, and fixed up a loose door handle.  I also helped Bob in the snack shack as he was cutting the hole for our last air conditioner installation.  This one was a challenge because one large air conditioner is replacing two smaller ones, and the holes for the two did not line up to make the larger hole.  So a lot of cutting and patching in this wall.

I found out that there was another plumbing break over the weekend.  We were gone but Daniel and Michael spent a good part of yesterday morning mopping up the water in three more hotel rooms after a shower connection split.  So I missed all that excitement.  Daniel, our master plumber, has his hands full on this project.  There seem to be a lot of leaky showers he has been working on.

A little bit less rain this afternoon so there were a few times when I was able to walk to the shop without getting wet.

A few of the women went to Blessing for a tour of the Hotel Blessing, which is the place we went to for a fantastic chicken dinner the first Saturday we were here.  It turns out they were not able to see much of the hotel, but Deb got her money’s worth by asking lots of questions.  So she is now an expert on the local lore of Blessing and Palacios, of the Hotel Blessing and the Hotel Luther, an abandoned hotel which is just a short walk from the camp.

And now we are steaming up the RV boiling down apples to make applesauce for tomorrow’s potluck.  That’s a Thing with these kinds of groups: have a potluck on one of the evenings.  Only our RV is not set up for potluck preparation.  The stove is tiny, we don’t have an oven, there is no refrigerator space, and no prep space.  We’ll end up storing the finished applesauce in one of the refrigerators in the cafeteria.  But we do it for the fellowship.