Whenever there are any events going on, we can participate in the meals. We also will be fed lunch on work days. Next weekend, another 400 or so people will be here on a retreat so we can get breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday and Sunday if we wish. One could get used to this.
It also results in our not using up our own food at the planned rate. We may end up coming home with some of the stuff we packed.
After breakfast I launched my drone and took some aerial pictures of the place. The RV section is full, so lots of volunteers. This also means that the electricity demand is high on a cold night and last night half of the RV area went dark when a main 200 Amp breaker tripped. Too many space heaters on at once. We are located near the back of the property, farthest from the road. It’s a bit of a hike to the dining hall at the top right of the picture, but worth it when the food is good and we don’t have to cook it ourselves.
Walk forward nearly 1/4 mile and we approach the main part of the camp, which includes several cabins, the dining hall, the camp store, and a bunch of outdoor activity areas.
The location may be in the middle of nowhere, but it’s a beautiful camp, and everything is decorated in themes. The four seasons conference building has rooms decorated for each month of the year, for example.
We joined a few other couples in going to Cross Point Community Church in La Grange. After lunch we took a bike ride, enjoying the sunny, low-60’s day. Ten miles of Texas backroads, very little traffic, a very pleasant bike ride.
We all met at 4pm for a walking tour of the place, for a meeting, and then for dinner prepared by our group leader couple. We got some more details on what we will be doing. Women will be painting porches. We were told that they will be painting haint-blue, which is supposed to deter swallows from building nests under the porch roofs.
I looked it up using ChatGPT. Its take: The “blue porch ceiling” tradition (often called haint blue) is mostly folklore. There’s no good evidence that swallows avoid the color blue.
Hoo, boy! I wonder if they have researched this? At the end of the day, we may have a bunch of pretty blue porches with swallows nesting in them. But we work at the pleasure of our hosts, so we’ll paint the porches blue. Especially when they feed us.
The guys will be rebuilding the axe-throwing area. Apparently, flying axes can cause damage and we will be rebuilding the back walls and side dividers of this structure.
We walked around most of the camp, learning where various things are, before ending up in the Four Seasons Conference building, in a room with several tables, where we held our meeting.
We had dinner and a chance to get to know some of the others, complements of our group leader. Tortilla soup and quesadillas, we’re really getting spoiled here.
Tomorrow we start work. 7:30 devotions, and then 8:00 on the job. Swallows beware!
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