Good morning to all of you.  It is early here in Brackettville, Texas, on a beautiful sunny morning.  Today is our first day off for the weekend that looks to be filled with a lot of activities.  First of all I started laundry about an hour ago at the laundry mat here at the RV park.  Good thing I started early because when I went to put clothes in the dryers, two ladies were waiting on me to empty the washing machines.  If I hadn't shown up when I did I believe that my clothes would have ended up on the floor.

This part week has been busy.  The ladies finished painting the sanctuary of the church and have started on two smaller rooms.  Before they can paint either one of the rooms there has to be a lot of prep work.  The door and window frames have to be scraped and sanded.  When the started scraping they realized there were about five coats of old paint.  They got it done, then did a good job of putting on paint.  The other room needed some work that the men had to do.  There was an old ceiling fan that had to be taken down.  This fan was so old that it is made from cast iron and not the thin metals that the one's are made of today.  It is very heavy.  We were able to loosen it enough from the ceiling to lower down to the top of the eight foot step ladder for it to rest on while we disconnected it from the wiring.  Once we cut the wires we were able to set the fan on the floor.  The fan was hanging from a rod that was connected to the ceiling on a big hook.  The hook was screwed into the ceiling about four inches.  It took several minutes to unscrew the hook due to it size and the tightness of the hold in the wood.  After cutting a piece of sheet rock and patching the hole left by the fan, we tackled a big hole in the wall behind the furnace.  That was just a matter of cutting a large piece of sheet rock a putting it up on the wall.  Right.  Another simple job turned into a big job.  After measuring the hole and then cutting the sheet rock, we thought it would go in easy.  Wrong.  Part of the area is behind pipes that go to the furnace, the sheet rock had to go behind that piping.  After much pushing, cutting, and some other body English, we got it in place.  Now all we have to do is install a new light on the ceiling.  That will get done Monday.

The floor in the fellowship hall is all most completed.  We finished the large room and the kitchen yesterday.  We still have to do the pieces along the walls in two small rooms.  We also have new base molding to put down.  With two miter saws and a power brad nailer, that shouldn't take too long.

As you can see we have been busy, now for a nice weekend.  Fort Clark Springs is hold the Fort Clark Days festival this weekend.  The old fort was built here in 1852 and was in operation as an active fort to 1954.  It was even a Confederate fort duing the War for Southern Independence.  Should be pretty nice.  There will be re-enactments take place, some with cannon and Gatling gun firings.  Also plenty of good food available.

I don't have any pictures for this posting, but I should have some good ones after this weekend.  You all have a good weekend, and remember

God Loves You.