As many of you know, the first day at any site is a lot of figuring out a game plan and getting everything you need. This week the volunteers are working at two different sites in Bud, not far from the home base in Mullens. One site is for a women who needed her porch steps repaired, the porch scraped and painted and the group will be making a gate so the yard can been fenced off to allow the dogs a safe place roam. Today they began scraping, which in not the most fun of tasks.

The other site, right up the road is for a young mother and her two children, one of whom is a special needs child. Both the child and the mom have upcoming surgeries and they need all the help they can get. Since we are only there for a week we had to choose a focus. In consultation with the home owner we decided to focus on the bathroom. The floor needs to be torn out and and new pretty much everything needs to be installed. Today the volunteers started to tear out the floor and make a game plan for everything else.

After a long day (and maybe a trip to DQ I heard) they went back to the church to share the evening activities. First, a scrumptious taco Monday dinner and then reflection. The sharing for the evening was to talk about a movie that reminds them of the experience in West Virginia. Sounds like there were a lot of good movies shared, and perhaps some new movies to watch in the future.

With all the set up happening at the sites, there weren’t a lot of pictures taken, so we will leave you with one taken today, that is very similar to many taken over the years…… PVs playing with cats/dogs at the sites. Anyone need a kitten? They are looking for homes : )