INSIDE AND OUT

 

Sharon and Gary finished installing the kitchen counter and cleaning everything up Monday morning at the home we had painted.

We all went over to bless the house and hang a welcome home sign. It is ready for the house parents to move in.

This plant survived the landscaping and painting and was ready to bloom when we left on Thursday.

I was excited to see it in bloom when we returned on Monday.  Never thought it would look like this.

The painting crew moved on to the President's house. He was to move in soon and since the home where he had been staying had a tree fall on it during the storms on Sunday he wanted to move in as soon as possible. This room had a decal all around the wall. It removed easily but Carol had to do some scrubbing to get the glue off. Then I worked on getting the pencil line off.

Bob got the rooms prepared to paint.

The girl's room was a bright turquoise.

 Connie and I painted the boy's room blue. We kept Susan in the closets.

 Carol took out many nails that were in the walls throughout the house, filled in the holes and touched up the paint.

 Connie cleaning out the brushes and rollers. Tuesday morning the house was ready for them to move in.

While we were painting inside Jack worked on the lighting outside on the  house and garage.

 Larry and Mike went back to Hardin Hall on Monday to find the shelves they built well filled.

 They built the counters in this room for some computer stations.

 There was a little space at the end of each counter so they built storage boxes.

 Then they moved on to the outside and started power washing Hardin Hall, along with Jack and Gary.

Gary power washed the walkways

 While they power washed Susan and I painted the curbing.

 Sharon joined us in painting the parking stripes, she is way down at the other end.

 Sharon painting a stop sign line. We didn't use a brush again, since we had many to paint and the roller worked much faster.

 More parking stripes and no parking areas to paint. What a different freshly painted lines makes in the appearance of the grounds.

 Thursday morning all 11 of us painted parking lines (162 spaces) and  400 feet of yellow curbing. Before we could eat lunch we had to paint the maintenance parking stripes.

We were then treated to a delicious picnic meal by the maintenance department. They were very grateful for the work we accomplished and we were very thankful for all the support they gave us. It is a great NOMADS project with a lot of work that always needs to be done.