Wow, I sure have been lazy about updating my blog lately!!
We headed south after spending Christmas week at Jeb & Lisa's and after enjoying a brief family Christmas get together at Joyce's sister's place. It was fun to see all of the kids and their spouses, including the recently married Alan & Janell.
We left on Monday the 29th and drove to a Walmart in northern Arkansas to sleep overnight in our trailer. After a good nights sleep we headed down towards Monroe, LA to camp at a nice state park on Lake DuBonne? They honored my US senior pass which allowed us to camp in a full hook-up site for $12 a night. We stayed thru New Years Day, leaving Friday the 2nd to drive to Uskichitto Retreat Center down in the southwest part of LA. While we were in the Monroe area we had to stop by the Duck Commander warehouse to visit Duck Dynasty land.
We settled into a nice campsite at URC and planned to start working Monday on some of the priority projects that Matt, the camp director had requested. Sunday we went into Lake Charles and attended the contemporary service at St. Luke - Simpson UMC. We grabbed a bite to eat and went grocery shopping before heading back to camp about 30 miles away.
Our first project was a big one. Cabin #4 had become unusable due to rotted floors in front of the showers in the 2 restrooms. The existing vinyl flooring was in poor condition and we
took it out. We cut out the rotted flooring in front of the shower in each restroom and beefed up the floor joists before replacing the plywood. After that we installed hardy board and Joyce started painting the walls before we started laying the new ceramic tile floor. By Thursday afternoon the ceramic was down and walls all painted. We decided to start the grouting on Monday. After we finished the grouting and sponge wiped the floors 3 times, I made some new baseboard out of old material that was left over. After painting the trim white I installed it while Joyce rehung light fixtures, mirrors and new shower curtains. I also made new transition thresholds and cut the bathroom doors off about 3/4" and reinstalled them.
The finished bathroom on the north side of Cabin 4
We wire-wheeled and painted 6 metal tables and 20 chairs that will be used at the pool this summer.
Top of yurt that was leaking during rains
Building a frame to cover the center of the yurts using scrap wood from the camp
Frame installed to yurt
Installing vinyl ribbed roofing
Installing vinyl ribbed roofing to frames
Besides repairing the roof leaks on the yurts we also spent a day cleaning and organizing the maintenance shop building.
One of the weekends we drove over to New Orleans and visited the National World War II Museum. This is an excellent museum and was well worth the time and money spent to see it. We were both very impressed.
Flowering shrubs at URC
Visitors at the camp doing the high ropes and zip line
