We arrived at Blue Lake Camp on Friday, March 8th, to settle in for our 3 week long NOMADS project. Upon arrival we were greeted by Larry and Linda Schluer our leaders for this project. They are from Ohio. A couple of hours later Joy and Dave Tabor, campground owners from northern Wisconsin, arrived. They are new NOMADS and this is their first project.
Our campsite @ Blue Lake Camp
Saturday morning we headed into Andalusia to pick up a few supplies and have a trailer tire repaired. (we picked up a nail) Shortly after we returned to Blue Lake 2 other NOMADS couples showed up; Bill and Kathy Waters from the southwestern tip of North Carolina, Lon & Billie Labumbard from Spooner Wisconsin. A while later on Duane and Linda Wakefield from Cape Elizabeth Maine arrived making our team complete. Sunday we all went to church at First United Methodist in Andalusia, followed by lunch together at Beef O'Brady's.
Sunday evening we had our initial team meeting with a tasty supper provided by Linda & Larry.
Duane & Lon tearing down old playground equipment
Duane and Lon painting the door they repaired
Monday morning we met at 8 for devotions and were welcomed by the camp director, Phyllis, who gave us a tour of the camps. There are actually 3 separate camping areas here at Blue Lake. There are 300 acres of property surrounded by the Conecuh National Forest. The camps occupy about 3/4 of the lake frontage with each having their own swimming areas. We were given assignments and went off to work after our tour.
Bill working on firewood storage shed
Bill cementing water line together
Dave running the trencher
Joyce & Lon cutting wood for new bunk beds
Some of the work assigned for week #1 was: replace 12 faucets, plumbing repairs, painting rooms in the north wing of Oakwood, installing 3 water lines and bubblers for drinking water in recreation areas (1000' of pipe), repair doors, tear down playground equipment, cut wood for new bunk beds, build 2 firewood storage sheds, repair noisy dryer, etc.
The camp was kind enough to feed us several times as well. I will continue with more about our time here at Blue Lake Camp next time.
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