MAKING PROGRESS

 Larry and Mark took out this outside door, reframed it and put on plywood.

 This is the room they do the stain glass in. They wanted the door removed so they could put in more shelves.

 After some cement board was put on Mark put on the first layer of stucco.

 Barry put on the next layer.

 Barry and Mary framing the inside and putting on cement board.

 Larry and Mark looking at the finished wall.

 Larry and Mark replaced the rotten fascia boards. Debbie, Mary and I scraped the peeling paint off the other boards and then we painted them all.

 Larry and Mark worked hard to remove this window.

 They had it framed in and plywood put on by the end of the day. Mary, Debbie and I always helped clean up.

 Putting on the cement board and then Barry stucco it.

 By the end of the week Larry and Mark removed this window and air conditioner.

 Thursday was cold, 60's and breezy, as you can tell by Larry's jacket.

Done by the end of the day.

 Mary, Debbie, and I painted all of the rooms at the parsonage when we weren't helping at the fellowship hall.

 The walls are cement. The electric has to be three feet off the floor now after the hurricane. The holes made when moving the electric and remodeling were filled in by Lonnie, the pastor's brother-in-law. Sanding the walls caused a lot of dust.

 Thursday afternoon our last area to paint was the hallway.

 While Debbie and I painted the hallway, Mary painted the trim boards.

 The hurricane monument is next to the church.

Tuesday evening Ron and Carol, members from the church who have lived here for 50 years, treated us to pizza and a video about the hurricane of 35. It was a huge hurricane that destroyed this section of the Keys along with the railroad. The stories the survivors told were so sad. 700 people died, many of them World War I veterans who were working on the railroad bridges.

Thursday evening we went to the Green Turtle Inn for dinner. It was built in 1928 and nearly blown away in 1935. It has been rebuilt several times.