Two Steps Back

The day started out innocently enough.  After devotions, we reviewed the list of tasks which had grown since yesterday.  Then we split up to our assigned tasks.  I was going to remove the snake from the conference center but first drove the golf cart to the Snack Shack to see if Daniel and Bob needed any help installing the air conditioner in that building.  As I approached the building, I dismissed it right away, but something in my brain told me that something was not right.  The parking area between the Snack Shack and the Bayview Motel rooms was wet, complete with some significant puddles.  The not-right part of that was that it did not rain last night.

The door to room 7 of Bayview was open and, looking in, I could see the sheen of a quarter inch of water over the carpeted floor.  A couple days ago, the shower valve in that room had been replaced because of a leak and one of the new couplings used in the fix had split sometime during the night last night and flooded that room.  And it wasn’t due to weather.  Last night it only got down to about 47 degrees.

Not only had it flooded this room, but it flooded two rooms to the right and two rooms to the left.  The water in the parking area was the result of the water running out of the entry doors.

Daniel and Bob did most of the work removing the water using a shop vac and a carpet shampoo machine.  Bucket after bucket of water came out.  Most of the furniture came out also, and fans and heaters and anything that would move air was employed to help dry things out.

They eventually put all the mattresses in a dry room and the remaining furniture under the roof of the Snack Shack until the rooms could dry out.  Needless to say, the items on their agenda didn’t get done.

I went to remove the snake from the conference center and was eventually stymied by not having a tall enough ladder.  We may get a lift on Monday.  I also removed a low-hanging telephone line near the RV area that tended to catch on tall fifth-wheel trailers.  Paul fixed up some loose stairs on the west side of the cafeteria, Kenny painted all the outside trim of the eight air conditioners we installed last week, and John, Kenneth, and Troy worked out framing out a hole for the air conditioner in the kitchen pantry.  Despite taking two steps back on the shower fix in Bayview Room 7, there was forward progress in other areas.

Several of the women painted the Nine-Square game, as the lines and numbers and arrows had all been worn off by the weather.

We are treated well here.  In addition to the fantastic lunches we have been enjoying (they are really dinners served at noon), break time is also a feast, with fruit and cookies and chocolate and all kinds of delectables.

At lunch time today, we were treated with a special treat.  Rob, the camp director, has us all over to his house for a lunch of sandwiches and two-by-four soup.  Built in 1906, this house is part of the camp and has quite a bit of history and character in it.  One of the fun features of this house is a slide next to the stairway going to the second floor.  An honest to goodness metal scorch-your-legs-on-a-hot-day slide. Most of us had to try it out.  It isn’t every day you are in a house with a slide.  Makes you feel like a kid again.

Thursday night is game night and we enjoyed fellowship over Five Crowns, Scrabble, and Pegs and Jokers.