We are all settled into our house in Pineville and are all ready for the week ahead. Our group may be smaller in number this week, but we are a determined group, ready finish up the work in Wyoming County.

For our last community day, we headed up to Twin Falls for a hike to the falls, which included a little exploring in and around the falls. After we finished up the hike we drove up to the lodge. They have been spending the past several years renovating the lodge and it looks fantastic. You wouldn’t even know it was the same place. We then went down to the pro shop by the golf course in hopes of getting ice cream, only to find out the little cafe went away during the renovations. We were left with only one thing to do, we had to go to Dairy Queen. What a sacrifice!

After our long day of excursions, a few naps were taken before dinner. For dinner we retooled leftovers from our Thursday night dinner from last week, spaghetti, added some garlic and melted cheese over it, and ta-da we had baked spaghetti, bread and salad.

After dinner we spent some time getting reoriented and then went right into the commissioning service, to welcome the new volunteers. The evening finished up with getting signed up for jobsites for Monday. We are looking forward to another great week.

We are all settled into our house in Pineville and are all ready for the week ahead. Our group may be smaller in number this week, but we are a determined group, ready finish up the work in Wyoming County.

For our last community day, we headed up to Twin Falls for a hike to the falls, which included a little exploring in and around the falls. After we finished up the hike we drove up to the lodge. They have been spending the past several years renovating the lodge and it looks fantastic. You wouldn’t even know it was the same place. We then went down to the pro shop by the golf course in hopes of getting ice cream, only to find out the little cafe went away during the renovations. We were left with only one thing to do, we had to go to Dairy Queen. What a sacrifice!

After our long day of excursions, a few naps were taken before dinner. For dinner we retooled leftovers from our Thursday night dinner from last week, spaghetti, added some garlic and melted cheese over it, and ta-da we had baked spaghetti, bread and salad.

After dinner we spent some time getting reoriented and then went right into the commissioning service, to welcome the new volunteers. The evening finished up with getting signed up for jobsites for Monday. We are looking forward to another great week.

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Sir Winston Churchill

As you can imagine with moving out of the school, Friday was a really busy day. We broke up into teams to either clean, pack up or drive and move all of the PV possessions from Hanover to our house in Pineville. With teamwork and a coordinated effort, everything that we weren’t still using (ie. air mattresses, food, etc.)was at the house and put away by 1:00 and the cleaners were done by noon. Having done the clean up with only 2 people before, this was an amazing effort the is MUCH appreciated.

After all the moving was done, some volunteers headed out to Glen Rogers manor for an afternoon of Banana Bingo and fingernail painting and what also turned out to be an afternoon of singing and playing the piano. What a great afternoon.

Also in the afternoon, some volunteers went on much appreciated visits to some of the people we have met over the years.

For dinner tonight we had pizza, since all of our dishes were packed. Although not a lot of food, it was appreciated after a hard days work.

Reflection tonight was a chance to close the chapter of this years summer program at Huff Consolidated. We reflected on how easy people can fall through the cracks, but how important it is to talk with each other and share our experiences. We all shared how we were changed, or how our world has changed because of our experiences this summer. It was a very poignant ending to this chapter…. onward to the house in Pineville for our last week in Wyoming County before moving on up to Bedford Stuyvesant.

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Sir Winston Churchill

As you can imagine with moving out of the school, Friday was a really busy day. We broke up into teams to either clean, pack up or drive and move all of the PV possessions from Hanover to our house in Pineville. With teamwork and a coordinated effort, everything that we weren’t still using (ie. air mattresses, food, etc.)was at the house and put away by 1:00 and the cleaners were done by noon. Having done the clean up with only 2 people before, this was an amazing effort the is MUCH appreciated.

After all the moving was done, some volunteers headed out to Glen Rogers manor for an afternoon of Banana Bingo and fingernail painting and what also turned out to be an afternoon of singing and playing the piano. What a great afternoon.

Also in the afternoon, some volunteers went on much appreciated visits to some of the people we have met over the years.

For dinner tonight we had pizza, since all of our dishes were packed. Although not a lot of food, it was appreciated after a hard days work.

Reflection tonight was a chance to close the chapter of this years summer program at Huff Consolidated. We reflected on how easy people can fall through the cracks, but how important it is to talk with each other and share our experiences. We all shared how we were changed, or how our world has changed because of our experiences this summer. It was a very poignant ending to this chapter…. onward to the house in Pineville for our last week in Wyoming County before moving on up to Bedford Stuyvesant.

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Sir Winston Churchill

As you can imagine with moving out of the school, Friday was a really busy day. We broke up into teams to either clean, pack up or drive and move all of the PV possessions from Hanover to our house in Pineville. With teamwork and a coordinated effort, everything that we weren’t still using (ie. air mattresses, food, etc.)was at the house and put away by 1:00 and the cleaners were done by noon. Having done the clean up with only 2 people before, this was an amazing effort the is MUCH appreciated.

After all the moving was done, some volunteers headed out to Glen Rogers manor for an afternoon of Banana Bingo and fingernail painting and what also turned out to be an afternoon of singing and playing the piano. What a great afternoon.

Also in the afternoon, some volunteers went on much appreciated visits to some of the people we have met over the years.

For dinner tonight we had pizza, since all of our dishes were packed. Although not a lot of food, it was appreciated after a hard days work.

Reflection tonight was a chance to close the chapter of this years summer program at Huff Consolidated. We reflected on how easy people can fall through the cracks, but how important it is to talk with each other and share our experiences. We all shared how we were changed, or how our world has changed because of our experiences this summer. It was a very poignant ending to this chapter…. onward to the house in Pineville for our last week in Wyoming County before moving on up to Bedford Stuyvesant.

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

Another hot day awaited us on our last home repair day of the week. Today we had five different home repair sites going on at the same time. We finished the flooring/linoleum site, so the home owner can now return home after a year of being out of her house from the flooding. We were also able to finish up the ramp and powerwashing that we began yesterday for a woman in Brenton. Work continued, and will continue next week on the bathroom site and the site where we are replacing drywall four feet up throughout due to flooding. The last site was helping a man put down some hardwood flooring in his house, also damaged by the flood.

Tonight was our last night of using the kitchen, as we will be packing up everything tomorrow. Dinner was a delicious use of many of the items in the kitchen. We had spaghetti, bread and salad; and a delicious caprese, with tomatoes brought down from Jersey. We were treated to two desserts, brownies and zucchini bars made from zucchini that was brought down earlier in the summer from a volunteer’s garden.

Reflection tonight focused on nourishment, how we nourish each other and other nourish us, both literally and figuratively.

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

Another hot day awaited us on our last home repair day of the week. Today we had five different home repair sites going on at the same time. We finished the flooring/linoleum site, so the home owner can now return home after a year of being out of her house from the flooding. We were also able to finish up the ramp and powerwashing that we began yesterday for a woman in Brenton. Work continued, and will continue next week on the bathroom site and the site where we are replacing drywall four feet up throughout due to flooding. The last site was helping a man put down some hardwood flooring in his house, also damaged by the flood.

Tonight was our last night of using the kitchen, as we will be packing up everything tomorrow. Dinner was a delicious use of many of the items in the kitchen. We had spaghetti, bread and salad; and a delicious caprese, with tomatoes brought down from Jersey. We were treated to two desserts, brownies and zucchini bars made from zucchini that was brought down earlier in the summer from a volunteer’s garden.

Reflection tonight focused on nourishment, how we nourish each other and other nourish us, both literally and figuratively.