Saturday, February 27, 2010
Final Week of Feb Build 2010
We have had a great week working with a group of College Students from Concordia College in Minnesota. What a great group of young people. They were on Spring Break and rode on a bus for 36 hours to get here. They did have fun and were able to go to Disney on Wednesday to MGM for the day but the other 4 days they WORKED. We got the house completely "Dried in" so now it is ready for the drywall.. Thursday night all of us Care A Vanners and some of the other volunteers and their wives fixed a Chili Supper for the group. As usual we had lots of food and a really good time.Several of the kids entertained us with singing and also playing the piano. Friday evening all the Care A Vanners went to dinner at Beef o Bradys for our celebration and "so long not goodbye" dinner. Everyone had a great time and then we came back to the camping area and had a fire and enjoyed somores and good converation. Several of the group left this morning either heading home or on to another Build. We will be going over to Disney tomorrow to meet with Ally & family and go to the Magic Kingdom on Monday. After that we can say we have been with all 5 grandkids. We will come back here and pickup the coach on Tuesday and head to Naples, Florida on Wednesday to have some rest and relaxing for a while. We plan to go back to Virgina sometime after it decides that it is NOT going to snow again. We have had a really great experience being team leaders on these two Care a Vanner Builds and hope to continue to do this work.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Saturday, Feb 20, 2010
We have had an interesting week.
First of all Larry and I had sad news from Virginia. Our dear friend, Ralph Parsons, who was battling ALS passed away on Monday afternoon. We have only known Ralph & Janice for about 6 years but you know how you meet someone for such a short time and they have such an influence on your life? Well, Ralph was just that kind of person. A gentle giant of a man. Janice called us to tell us that Ralph was dying about 30 minutes before he died. Ralph was a retired Army Colonel and his Blog was Eagles in Flight. After his last camping trip with our group he stated in his blog that his wings were clipped but he was not grounded. Sunday afternoon before he died on Monday there were 2 bald eagles flying around our camping area here in Dade City, Florida. Now other people said they had seen them before but Larry and I had not so we now know that was a sign from Ralph telling us he was soaring to new places.
The rest of the week has gone rather smoothly with getting the outside walls up on the new house over in a different location. I spent a lot of time transporting people, tools, and food . We had some painting to do here at the original jobsite but this next week I think we will all be working over at the new site.
Tomorrow about 9 of us are going to church with Erma. We also have a group of college students coming in to work this next week and we plan to have a dinner for them one night if they want us to.
we have one more week here with the care a vanners and then we are going to Disney with Ally(our daughter) and family and then on down further South to Naples for a while before we go back to Virginia.
First of all Larry and I had sad news from Virginia. Our dear friend, Ralph Parsons, who was battling ALS passed away on Monday afternoon. We have only known Ralph & Janice for about 6 years but you know how you meet someone for such a short time and they have such an influence on your life? Well, Ralph was just that kind of person. A gentle giant of a man. Janice called us to tell us that Ralph was dying about 30 minutes before he died. Ralph was a retired Army Colonel and his Blog was Eagles in Flight. After his last camping trip with our group he stated in his blog that his wings were clipped but he was not grounded. Sunday afternoon before he died on Monday there were 2 bald eagles flying around our camping area here in Dade City, Florida. Now other people said they had seen them before but Larry and I had not so we now know that was a sign from Ralph telling us he was soaring to new places.
The rest of the week has gone rather smoothly with getting the outside walls up on the new house over in a different location. I spent a lot of time transporting people, tools, and food . We had some painting to do here at the original jobsite but this next week I think we will all be working over at the new site.
Tomorrow about 9 of us are going to church with Erma. We also have a group of college students coming in to work this next week and we plan to have a dinner for them one night if they want us to.
we have one more week here with the care a vanners and then we are going to Disney with Ally(our daughter) and family and then on down further South to Naples for a while before we go back to Virginia.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Saturday-- Feb 13th 2010 --- Week of Feb 7-14
Today is a very special day. Our oldest grandchild , Emily Taylor Halstead,turned 16 today and it is very hard to believe .
We have had rain, cold, wind and not so nice weather this week and had a couple of NO WORK days but it is still better than what has been happening in Virginia.
Our next Care A Vanner Build starts officially tomorrow with an Orientation Meeting at 5 pm and then no work on Monday due to Presidents Day and then on Tuesday here we go for 2 weeks. We have some people who were here on the January Build and some new people, whom we have never worked with before, but we know it will be fine.
Rosalee picked up her new coach yesterday so everyone has been wanting to have a tour today., Larry is conducting motorhome school with her which will be on going until we leave the first of March.
Not much else happening around Dade City but I am sure things will continue to be interesting.
We have had rain, cold, wind and not so nice weather this week and had a couple of NO WORK days but it is still better than what has been happening in Virginia.
Our next Care A Vanner Build starts officially tomorrow with an Orientation Meeting at 5 pm and then no work on Monday due to Presidents Day and then on Tuesday here we go for 2 weeks. We have some people who were here on the January Build and some new people, whom we have never worked with before, but we know it will be fine.
Rosalee picked up her new coach yesterday so everyone has been wanting to have a tour today., Larry is conducting motorhome school with her which will be on going until we leave the first of March.
Not much else happening around Dade City but I am sure things will continue to be interesting.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Week of Feb 1, 2010
Hard to believe that February 2010 is already here. Happy Birthday to all my February family members and friends.
We started back to work on Monday , Feb 1st, and have had an interesting week. It rained us out Monday afternoon so we went to the movies to see The Blind Side , which was a great movie. If you haven't seen it you SHOULD. Tuesday morning was another rainy day so we did not work and Rosalie, one of the other Care A Vanners and I went to another movie, "It's Complicated" and it is a definite must see for us girls. I burned a lot of calories laughing.
Finally we had nice work days on Wednesday and Thursday and got a lot accomplished. Friday morning was a good work day and then here came the rain again. Got some cleaning done in the motorhome in the afternoon and then a group of us went out to dinner for the Friday night all you can eat fish at Tom's.
Saturday morning we got up and went to Lazydays . Now some of you might know what Lazydays is but some don't so I will tell you. One of the largest RV Dealers in Florida. NO, we were not shopping for a new motorhome but a friend was and wanted us to be with her for advice. We found a nice salesman and looked at lots of rigs for her and hopefully she will decide soon what she is going to do. More on this later.
Tomorrow we have friends from Michigan coming over to visit. Gerry Cawthra and her friend Bill. It has been a long time since we have seen them.
Later we will be watching the Super Bowl and not talking to each other as Larry is cheering for the Saints and I am cheering for the COLTS. Bry and Ally have a family fued going but just in fun, I hope. She sent him a present of Colts memborbilia to help him get into the spirit of the game but I don't think it is going to work, he is cheering for the Saints.
More later
We started back to work on Monday , Feb 1st, and have had an interesting week. It rained us out Monday afternoon so we went to the movies to see The Blind Side , which was a great movie. If you haven't seen it you SHOULD. Tuesday morning was another rainy day so we did not work and Rosalie, one of the other Care A Vanners and I went to another movie, "It's Complicated" and it is a definite must see for us girls. I burned a lot of calories laughing.
Finally we had nice work days on Wednesday and Thursday and got a lot accomplished. Friday morning was a good work day and then here came the rain again. Got some cleaning done in the motorhome in the afternoon and then a group of us went out to dinner for the Friday night all you can eat fish at Tom's.
Saturday morning we got up and went to Lazydays . Now some of you might know what Lazydays is but some don't so I will tell you. One of the largest RV Dealers in Florida. NO, we were not shopping for a new motorhome but a friend was and wanted us to be with her for advice. We found a nice salesman and looked at lots of rigs for her and hopefully she will decide soon what she is going to do. More on this later.
Tomorrow we have friends from Michigan coming over to visit. Gerry Cawthra and her friend Bill. It has been a long time since we have seen them.
Later we will be watching the Super Bowl and not talking to each other as Larry is cheering for the Saints and I am cheering for the COLTS. Bry and Ally have a family fued going but just in fun, I hope. She sent him a present of Colts memborbilia to help him get into the spirit of the game but I don't think it is going to work, he is cheering for the Saints.
More later
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