After a day of catching up on laundry and grocery shopping Saturday, Sharon and I continued with a day of rest. It is amazing how much your body says to rest after doing some heavy work for three weeks.
Sunday we attended church at First. The service started off with some great praise music led by the church Lay leader. He played an electric key board and led the singing. After a few minutes the choir came out and joined in. The music was a great way to start the service, got everybody involved. We really enjoyed the greet and meet part of the service. The Lay leader ask everybody to stand and greet each other for a few minutes. People walked all around the church welcoming visitors and just chatting with friends. The minister then preached a very inspiring service on the beginning of Lent. After the church service, the congregation walked across the street from the church to the fellowship for a pot luck lunch. The people here in southwest Texas know how to eat. And, you know me, I had my share of a little bit of all of it. YUM YUM.
After lunch Sharon and I decide to take a little drive to see some of the country side. About 22 miles north of Brackettville is the Kickapoo Caverns State Park, that was our destination. On the way we passed the site where the movie "The Alamo" was made, yes the one with John Wayne. The site used to be opened to the public, but has been closed for several years. I understand that the complete movie set in still there. After we got to Kickapoo State park we started looking for the cavern. We could locate it. The park office was closed, so I guess if we have time, and want to go back, we will try again. We did get to see the Stuart Bat Cave. We were to early in the season to see the bats. Starting later in the spring the bats come out in droves. Would be exciting to see. When we left the park we decided to continue north instead of heading south right back to Brackettville. We went north, and we went north. Did I tell you that we went north. We saw nothing but some more nothing. I finally had Sharon get the GPS out to see how far we were from civilization. We were a long way. She put in Brackettville, we got directions back. No, the directions did not take us the way we had been, it took us a shorter way. I was a nice drive seeing nothing. Well, actually, we did see some cattle, sheep, goats, horses, and a crew putting in an oil line. We finally got safely back to the RV after about four hours.
Today we started our project. After morning devotions, the men and women split to do different jobs. First the men took scaffolding to the church sanctuary and put it up. We also took down some speakers off of the wall. Never knew how heavy speakers were until I was up high on a ladder trying to take them down. After accomplishing this, the men went back to the fellowship hall where we would be working. We are removing about 1500 square feet of old sheet flooring and installing 2300 square feet of new flooring. The old flooring took some work getting up what we worked on today. I got to use one of my new tools taking up some of the old glue. Yes, Mel, I use my oscillating saw, it works great. We also did some patching of rough spots in the new concrete. The concrete is in very good condition, we just had a few spots to fix. We also cut out space at the bottom of the door frames to slide the tile under. Yes, Mel, we used the oscillating saw.
It was a good day. Looking forward to getting back to work tomorrow.
Brackettville First United Methodist Church, Brackettville, Texas
Some of the scenery we saw on our Sunday drive
Some more of the lovely scenery we was on our drive. Yes, miles, and miles, and miles, of the same thing. Tried hard to see a real tree. No did see.
Here's Sharon doing some painting of the door. No, she didn't paint the stained glass window.
Ralph, the team lead on the project on the left, and one of the church members discussing how we are going to lay out the tile. You can see the old vinyl floor covering that we have to remove.
More for you all in a couple of days.
And, always remember, God Loves You
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