Cheering on the Home Team

We had a fun little project this morning.  Donna has a small desk she uses in her bedroom that really doesn’t work all that well for her.  She was injured in a fall down a flight of stairs about six months ago and currently makes her way around in a powered wheelchair.  The chair doesn’t fit under the desk.  So she requested that we use the top surface of the desk and place it between two upright cabinets that will be in the office of their new home in the N house.

So we hauled it down to the N house and managed to pop the surface off easier than we expected.

We then fashioned supports on either side of the cabinets and placed the desk surface in between them.  Donna wanted it two inches higher than before to accommodate her chair so we did that also.  The result turned out rather well.

Then we turned our attention to the flooring in the room where we had just finished the drywall and the painting.  We found a whole stack of carpet squares in the I building (where all the supplies are) and figured we would use those.  We were told the flooring guy in Marsing might know where we could get some adhesive for these tiles, so we drove down there.  We found him in the back and explained that we were from Hope House and were looking to do a small carpeting job and wondering if he knew where we could get some adhesive.

We followed him into his cluttered shed and he soon found a couple buckets.  “Just use this up first and then use the new one.  Then bring back the rest,” he told us.  Hope House has a lot of supporters in this area.

We carried all the supplies and the carpet squares into the room and then set about separating the squares from each other.  We soon found out that these were used tiles that were pulled up from another building.  To keep them from sticking together, there were layers of paper towel between each piece.  After spending 30 minutes removing the paper towel that was stuck to one piece we began to rethink this plan.  There were 50 more tiles laying in a pile on the floor.  We weren’t able to contact anyone in command so we ended the work day early.  We’ll figure this one out tomorrow.

After dinner we went to the gym to cheer on the home team in girls’ volleyball.  The Hope House Heroes won all three games (I’m told that’s a first).  The last two games were quite close.

When we arrived back at the RV, Ron and Donna had just arrived and delivered a small stack of brand new carpet squares to us.  I guess I know what we are doing tomorrow.