Spending Time at the Mini-Golf Course

Monday, Agnes and Annette finished painting the final coat of paint on the foundation at the Oaks and then joined the crew at the mini-golf course where they were removing the old rug from the different holes. By Wednesday noon five holes were recarpeted. It was threatening to rain so we covered them with plastic because the glue is water soluble and needs five days of setting time.

 

 

There are always more "firsts" in your life. This astro-turf job is one of them. Jim and Bernie check to see if their seaming will look good.

 

Jim was really thankful for the willing crew working ahead removing the previous rug. It was a hard blister forming task to scrape and clean the course.
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During the rain Wednesday afternoon Jim cut the trim boards for the Oaks motel unit and installed these Thursday morning. Then after coffee we finished off  hole six on the golf course before the rain started again at noon.We then moved to another small project of rug installation in the hallway of a volunteer lodging at the camp.
This ends off a very busy week of rug installations with tired knees and achy muscles. We have four more work days left here and Darrel, one of the employees here keeps asking, "How long are you staying?"

 

The camp is normally quiet during the week days but on a weekend like this we witness the usefulness of the work we are doing. There are 400 people here, several groups of boy scouts in the campground, a women's group in the motels and a youth group in the cabins to name a few.

This is our last weekend at Lakewood Retreat. Our Friday and Saturday have been useful for getting a variety of jobs looked after - grocery shopping, oil change for the truck, tire pressures all checked. Now that we know where the good valencia oranges are, we picked two half bushel bags of oranges for juicing and hopefully some for taking home to share.