Welcome to our blog of weekly activities. This hill to the mountain view campsites has given us a walking challenge. Our goal is to make the walk down to the campground entrance and back up a daily heart healthy exercise. At the end of a work day this can be a difficult task. To get an idea of just how steep this climb is Jim decided to measure the angle. He figured it was up to 22 1/2 degrees, one foot up for each four feet forward - the same as our house roof. The GPS says it's a 130 foot elevation change - certainly not a flat land walk.
Knowing the tool trailer had the tools he needed, Jim made a pizza paddle on a sunny Saturday (No, it's not an over sized ping pong paddle) for our preferred way of baking homemade pizza on the barbeque. The paddle is used to carry the dough to the barbeque.
After having had a limited amount of work to do last week, everyone was ready to get going on the drywall work Monday. We were glad for a dry place to work on a rainy day. Bernie and Jim worked on the ceilings while Agnes and Annette completed driving the remaining screws. Dick and Jon worked on the wall sheeting and Jenny drove the extra screws.
The house was a buzz with workers in various rooms, cutting, carrying, and screwing sheets in place. It wasn't possible to get a picture without the dust spots.
Sometimes tool repairs are needed before the job can go on.
By Tuesday Jim started on the taping and by the end of our four day work week only one bathroom was needed to be taped.
With hard construction work there seems to be no lack of appetite in this group. Thursday evening we enjoyed our weekly pot-luck supper, then on Saturday our group together with visiting friends from the Columbus, MS warehouse enjoyed more food at The Ole Cookstove buffet restaurant (run by the Yoder family) an hour drive north of here in a quiet, secluded country setting.
This restaurant has limited hours with only being open Friday and Saturday, but are known far and wide for their good homestyle food. We waited for 45 minutes before being seated. On our return we stopped and shopped at the Dutch Oven Bakery. This is an Mennonite/Amish style store with a variety of baking, meats, cheese, jams and more things not normally found in a regular store.
Alabama is a scenic state and a joy to explore. A stop at this covered bridge gave us a chance to settle the home made ice cream and desserts that we had just indulged on.
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