All Hands on Deck

First of all, Happy Birthday America! For 233 years you have been the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. God willing, you shall always be.

Now then, on Friday an entire group stayed at the Villa to help out with various projects. I was with a few of them cleaning up the nearly completed garage. Once we got that done, we replaced a grate over the street gutter and then went inside to stain some brick columns. It seemed odd to be doing that to brick, but they were in a room that was basically a big covered porch, so I guess it helped waterproof them. It made them look a lot brighter red, too. After lunch, both groups went out to separate ministry activities, and I stayed behind to help Walter work on the frame of the garage. We should be done with that today, and be able to get it all painted, weather permitting, which means the garage should be completely, 100% finished by the end of the day. Finally! For dinner, we went back to the House again. I am guessing that is how it is going to be done the rest of the time this group is here, but already we are getting a pretty good system in place to make it less of a hassle. The bigger problem is going to be the massive amounts of garbage it generates, and no place to put the bags outside where animals cannot get to them.