April 21 Work Party!

Here is a go at 'captioning' the pictures (scroll down for more). Should not be too tricky to figure out which caption goes with which I think:
Vicki and Holly at lunch, Kathy and Penny? painting our house, Linda hauls firewood, Carol delights the kids with sounding the triangle for a meal, someone (sorry - didn't get all the names) and Joanna rake, Grant makes MANY cuts with the chainsaw, Jason and Drew take a break, a kind worker smiles at me, Jim (forground) at the worktalbe by the garage, the 'digger' takes a stump out of the ground behind our house,
Sarah inspects the fence and Andy hauls brush.

So, a week ago we had a group from Summerland Baptist Church come up and do a bunch of work here at camp. We had an incredible 'work party!' About 40 people came and did everything from clear brush (saw up trees using a chainsaw, rake, haul firewood), build a fence along the driveway, installing doors on the garage, a railing in front of the skit room and by the flags at the top of the grassy 'square', put'softening' (I think it was called) on the central
washrooms, start painting our house and probably more stuff I am forgetting.

On Friday Don, from our church, came and felled (is that how you say it?) many trees near the cabins, along the beaver ponds trail, one near the beach and one by the Skinner's house. These trees were weighted down so heavily by snow in the winter, they became damaged and unsafe now.

About four people came Fri. night and everyone else came out for the day and left after dinner. Mary did a wonderful job planning and making the meals despite non-optimal health.
Cyril, also under the weather, was out to carve the roast that evening.

Ya, it was a good day. The people enjoyed working together - young and old (how cool is that? different generations modelling for each other, encouraging one another and being
Christ's hand and feet), camp was blessed and lots of work was done.
We still have much more too do - a lot of tree clearing to do it seems - hauling new firewood.

I enjoyed a walk with Grant and Angela and Carol, down to the lake Fri. night. Sarah did too and said, 'Thank you for the walk Mom. I really enjoyed it." Something like that.
A couple kids ages 4 and 3, I believe, came up with their parents and S. and I had fun playing with them and I talking with their Mom some. Sarah learned about doing 'plays' on the stage at
campfire from Jack, the 4 year old. The next day we had to come back and do the same. She did a dance and I watched and then it was my turn and she watched and I sang the hokey pokey. We have many months to prepare for skit nights eh?

Andy enjoyed a handful of days off (and us too) after the workday. After I posted last, things did get better in terms of energy for him. Thanks for the prayers. Our days off included a nice trip out to Summerland and Penticton for shopping and enjoying much warmer weather than
we have here. I was thinking we should have brought the tent to stay over.

So, thank you and God bless you to those who came up for the work party and those that prayed. There were no injuries and the rain held off as well, as far as I know (we were napping
for 2 hours during the middle of the day).

Plans for the new cabin are underway. We had a sight excavated by the office but were later told it was too close to the 'creek' - the run-off from the spring meltdown - so a new site, on the other side of the office, has been selected.

Luke, also from Summerland Baptist Church, and his wife and baby daughter, were up Sunday to take a look at the site. He is heading up the building of this cabin.