PLAY, EAT, WORK

 Since Monday was Martin Luther King Jr  Day we were off, so we all went to Carol and Bob's condo at New Smyrna Beach.

 They live a short walk from the beach. Gary with four bathing beauties. I took a picture of Carol taking a picture.

 Gary, Sharon,Susan,Mike, Dottie, Larry, Connie, Lee, Bob and Carol enjoying a beautiful day at the beach.

 After we took a long walk along the beach we came back and rested.

 We ended the day at JB's fish camp for dinner.

 Another picture with Carol taking a picture.

 Well fed and rested ready to start our second week of work.

 Jack and Gary delivered more cabinets for the kitchen. Sharon removed the doors.

 Then she primed and painted them.

 Gary and Jack worked on the electric in the house getting all of the switches to work and figuring out what worked what and how they were wired. A little bit of a challenge.

 The maintenance shop has all of the supplies we need. Jack getting more switch plates.

 Connie found some white paint for the shutters. She looks a little too excited! Hope it was because this is the last paint needed for the house.

 Lee on his golf cart, he has been working around the campus.  Ineed to get a picture of the tractor he has been running to clean up the debris around the ground from Hurricane Matthew.

Tuesday Larry and Mike put in electrical outlets and lighting  in the room they built last week.

 Wednesday we went to Hollerbach's Willow Tree Cafe in Sanford. We tried to go here last Thursday but there was a street fair and knew we wouldn't get seated for a long time.

 It is a German restaurant and we had a great dinners.

 Cabinets painted so Gary hung them and Jack moved the electrical boxes.

 Sharon put on all the cabinet doors, Oops those were hung upside down.

 By the end of the day Thursday bottom cabinet installed.

 Sharon and I worked outside. I  scraped off the peeled paint around the foundation and Sharon painted the first coat on the house Then I rolled the second coat while she brushed the top and trim.

 Bob gave us a hand.

 Carol and Connie painted the white on the front porch.

 Now that Sharon was done painting cabinets she helped roll paint outside.

 Carol painted the shutters.

 The house is painted.

 The back of the house.

Ceiling and walls on the lanai were painted. The  house looks beautiful inside and out.

Larry and Mike worked two days at Hardin Hall building shelves for storage. This building is where the administration offices are for the Children's Home.

Beautiful shelves installed on both sides of the room.

We ended our week at Goodfella's for some delicious Italian food.  I just am not sure we have worked hard enough to burn off all the calories we have eaten this week !

FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME

Our NOMADS project for period 1 is at Enterprise,FL at the Children's Home. We started with a tour of the facility. It has a very good reputation as a great Children's Home.

We are parked on the grounds of the Children Home. It takes many volunteers to make these Homes successful.

This building is where we meet each morning for devotions. On the right are full bathrooms and laundry for our use.

The team for this week. Going around the table starting with our leaders Lee and Connie, Sharon and Gary, Carol and Bob, Jack, Bob and Susan and Larry and Dottie (taking the picture)

Half of the team is working at this house about a mile away. The Children's Home had just purchased it so house parents can live here the week they are off. A couple are house parents for a week and then off a week.

All the rooms needed painting so Bob started cutting in this room.

Connie cutting in around the bottom of this room.

Sharon cutting in around the window.

Carol and Susan cut back and thinned out the plants around the house so the outside can be painted.

Carol finished landscaping and began rolling the rooms.

Sharon and Susan took off the cabinet doors and then Sharon painted the cabinet frame

while Susan painted the doors and drawers.

A new electrical box had been installed but there was a large hole at the bottom and space along the side. Bob  filled it in and spackled it.

Two afternoons I power washed the house, fence and anything else Carol thought needed cleaning.

The rooms were painted so Carol and Sharon started painting the back porch.

Connie taking out some of the nails.

Susan started painting the outside of the house. This house will be finished next week.

While we were working at the house the guys were working at the maintenance building. First they moved this wall to here. Larry explaining to me what they had done.

The front wall was framed

Larry and Gary lifted it up

Jack and Mike helped get it secured.

Another wall built, sided, a door hung, and a roof put on and this building was finished by Thursday.

Even built  a work bench.

And fixed the electric. A good start to our work here at the Children's Home.