“My life is my message.” Mahatma Gandhi

The West Virginia portion of the PV Summer Program is officially complete. For the last day, we all headed to Mullens to work with UGWA and do bug counting, collecting. We were able to do samples in three different locations in and around Mullens. One area turned out to be fine and another, not so great and will need some work. The day turned out to be one of the hottest of the summer, capping off the hottest summer in West Virginia in 75 years.

After coming home from the bug monitoring, everyone pitched in to help get the house ready to close up for a few months. Instead of dirtying a bunch of dishes and creating leftovers, we ended up treating everyone to pizza.

We wrapped up the evening with a closing reflection, asking each of us to share a person or an event that left an imprint on our hearts.

As we close this portion of the summer, we want to thank everyone that came and spent time with us, or sent prayers and good thoughts our way. A lot of wonderful work was done, but more importantly many lives were touched including ours.

“My life is my message.” Mahatma Gandhi

The West Virginia portion of the PV Summer Program is officially complete. For the last day, we all headed to Mullens to work with UGWA and do bug counting, collecting. We were able to do samples in three different locations in and around Mullens. One area turned out to be fine and another, not so great and will need some work. The day turned out to be one of the hottest of the summer, capping off the hottest summer in West Virginia in 75 years.

After coming home from the bug monitoring, everyone pitched in to help get the house ready to close up for a few months. Instead of dirtying a bunch of dishes and creating leftovers, we ended up treating everyone to pizza.

We wrapped up the evening with a closing reflection, asking each of us to share a person or an event that left an imprint on our hearts.

As we close this portion of the summer, we want to thank everyone that came and spent time with us, or sent prayers and good thoughts our way. A lot of wonderful work was done, but more importantly many lives were touched including ours.

“My life is my message.” Mahatma Gandhi

The West Virginia portion of the PV Summer Program is officially complete. For the last day, we all headed to Mullens to work with UGWA and do bug counting, collecting. We were able to do samples in three different locations in and around Mullens. One area turned out to be fine and another, not so great and will need some work. The day turned out to be one of the hottest of the summer, capping off the hottest summer in West Virginia in 75 years.

After coming home from the bug monitoring, everyone pitched in to help get the house ready to close up for a few months. Instead of dirtying a bunch of dishes and creating leftovers, we ended up treating everyone to pizza.

We wrapped up the evening with a closing reflection, asking each of us to share a person or an event that left an imprint on our hearts.

As we close this portion of the summer, we want to thank everyone that came and spent time with us, or sent prayers and good thoughts our way. A lot of wonderful work was done, but more importantly many lives were touched including ours.

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” Thomas Carlyle

Today the crew headed back up to Hanover for one last day of home repair, and one last push for the summer. A small group went and finished up the bathroom we have been working on for a couple of weeks and the rest of the group went to continue work on the trailer where we have been removing drywall, replacing it, mudding sanding and painting. Besides all of the drywall work, today they installed a kitchen sink and cabinet. We were able to completely finish the living room, kitchen and bathroom, so the family can move back in while they continue to work on the remaining rooms.

Dinner tonight was like the story Stone Soup. A big pot of soup was made (well actually two pots of soup were made) from all the leftover vegetables in the house. It turned out to be scrumptious, especially when eaten with homemade the cornbread.

One of our very talented PVs sang us a song for reflection while accompanying herself on the guitar. It was beautiful and quite a treat. For the sharing component, a traditional “new and good” was done. We hadn’t done a new and good for so long it was nice to revisit an oldie but goodie.

We can’t believe we only have one more day of the PV summer program in West Virginia, where did the time go?

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” Thomas Carlyle

Today the crew headed back up to Hanover for one last day of home repair, and one last push for the summer. A small group went and finished up the bathroom we have been working on for a couple of weeks and the rest of the group went to continue work on the trailer where we have been removing drywall, replacing it, mudding sanding and painting. Besides all of the drywall work, today they installed a kitchen sink and cabinet. We were able to completely finish the living room, kitchen and bathroom, so the family can move back in while they continue to work on the remaining rooms.

Dinner tonight was like the story Stone Soup. A big pot of soup was made (well actually two pots of soup were made) from all the leftover vegetables in the house. It turned out to be scrumptious, especially when eaten with homemade the cornbread.

One of our very talented PVs sang us a song for reflection while accompanying herself on the guitar. It was beautiful and quite a treat. For the sharing component, a traditional “new and good” was done. We hadn’t done a new and good for so long it was nice to revisit an oldie but goodie.

We can’t believe we only have one more day of the PV summer program in West Virginia, where did the time go?

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” Thomas Carlyle

Today the crew headed back up to Hanover for one last day of home repair, and one last push for the summer. A small group went and finished up the bathroom we have been working on for a couple of weeks and the rest of the group went to continue work on the trailer where we have been removing drywall, replacing it, mudding sanding and painting. Besides all of the drywall work, today they installed a kitchen sink and cabinet. We were able to completely finish the living room, kitchen and bathroom, so the family can move back in while they continue to work on the remaining rooms.

Dinner tonight was like the story Stone Soup. A big pot of soup was made (well actually two pots of soup were made) from all the leftover vegetables in the house. It turned out to be scrumptious, especially when eaten with homemade the cornbread.

One of our very talented PVs sang us a song for reflection while accompanying herself on the guitar. It was beautiful and quite a treat. For the sharing component, a traditional “new and good” was done. We hadn’t done a new and good for so long it was nice to revisit an oldie but goodie.

We can’t believe we only have one more day of the PV summer program in West Virginia, where did the time go?

“Thousands of a candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha

Once again, we had two sites in the morning that joined together for the afternoon. The new site yesterday was putting a Ondura roof on a porch in Glen Rogers for a lady we met when we first came into the county 13 years ago. Luckily the Ondura could be put on right over the old rolled roofing roof, so the site was complete by lunch. The other group which they joined in the afternoon was the ramp site in Ravencliffe that was started yesterday. After a lot of sweat and hard work, the ramp was complete by the end of the day. After the site was complete, a car load of people headed up into Glen Rogers to visit another long time friend of the PVs who is quite the story teller. It turns out that the ramp we built was for his sister, who would have known.

Dinner tonight we were treated to a Mexican feast, make your own taco/burrito’s with homemade grilled corn salsa. For dessert we had dump cake direct from the PV Cookbook. Yummy, yummy.

Reflection tonight we focused on the idea of a “bucket list.” Not our own bucket list, but what our bucket list would be for the area down here. It was good to hear everyone’s idea’s of how they would help make the lives of the people here a little easier.

“Thousands of a candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha

Once again, we had two sites in the morning that joined together for the afternoon. The new site yesterday was putting a Ondura roof on a porch in Glen Rogers for a lady we met when we first came into the county 13 years ago. Luckily the Ondura could be put on right over the old rolled roofing roof, so the site was complete by lunch. The other group which they joined in the afternoon was the ramp site in Ravencliffe that was started yesterday. After a lot of sweat and hard work, the ramp was complete by the end of the day. After the site was complete, a car load of people headed up into Glen Rogers to visit another long time friend of the PVs who is quite the story teller. It turns out that the ramp we built was for his sister, who would have known.

Dinner tonight we were treated to a Mexican feast, make your own taco/burrito’s with homemade grilled corn salsa. For dessert we had dump cake direct from the PV Cookbook. Yummy, yummy.

Reflection tonight we focused on the idea of a “bucket list.” Not our own bucket list, but what our bucket list would be for the area down here. It was good to hear everyone’s idea’s of how they would help make the lives of the people here a little easier.

“Thousands of a candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha

Once again, we had two sites in the morning that joined together for the afternoon. The new site yesterday was putting a Ondura roof on a porch in Glen Rogers for a lady we met when we first came into the county 13 years ago. Luckily the Ondura could be put on right over the old rolled roofing roof, so the site was complete by lunch. The other group which they joined in the afternoon was the ramp site in Ravencliffe that was started yesterday. After a lot of sweat and hard work, the ramp was complete by the end of the day. After the site was complete, a car load of people headed up into Glen Rogers to visit another long time friend of the PVs who is quite the story teller. It turns out that the ramp we built was for his sister, who would have known.

Dinner tonight we were treated to a Mexican feast, make your own taco/burrito’s with homemade grilled corn salsa. For dessert we had dump cake direct from the PV Cookbook. Yummy, yummy.

Reflection tonight we focused on the idea of a “bucket list.” Not our own bucket list, but what our bucket list would be for the area down here. It was good to hear everyone’s idea’s of how they would help make the lives of the people here a little easier.