Day two turned out to be a beautiful day. We saw the clouds lift out of the valley and here came the sun! Now, after a full day, we are tired! But everyone feels good about their projects.
The ditch digging (to reroute rain water coming off of a roof here on campus) is complete! Picture this: 10 kids, age 10 or under, digging with pick axes, a 50 foot trench, 18” wide and deep, through the mud. (Remember, yesterday it poured rain!) And then they hit concrete! (Apparently a long time ago it was a paved area. Who knew.) Suddenly their digging also included breaking up concrete! At any rate after two days of working on that project it looks like it did before they started, except now the rain water is flowing through an underground pipe. Great job kids (and their adult supervisors/digging helpers)!
Other projects were also completed: The fencing project (I failed to mention this one yesterday — another one with lots of able youth workers) put up all of the fencing materials that were in stock. This was not your run of the mill, string up some wire and call it a day — this was fencing running through woods and mostly up and down steep slopes! Challenging.
68 pounds of onion sets were picked over and bagged into one pound bags (to be sold by the garden ministry that is here on campus), and hundreds more soup labels where trimmed and counted. The porch projects also wrapped up. A couple of crews came back for supper and then returned to work because they didn’t want to leave a job incomplete! (Oops, I forgot to check with the soffit crew and they’ve gone to bed!)
Thank you to all, for your support and donations.
Blessings,
-- Carol
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