So tomorrow is our last day of work here at Lake Swan Camp. When we arrived three weeks ago, the project host gave our GL (Group Leader) a great list of items he was hoping would be accomplished during our time here. We ladies would be concentrating on this building – Lakeview Lodge-
and painting, painting and painting. We started in the conference room, where we added a feature wall and then just freshened up the other walls and trim with fresh coat of paint. It was fun to all be working in the same room, and it was especially fun once we figured out how to work the heat! Kudos to Francine who figured it out (even the director who did get it to work one morning wasn’t really sure what he did to make it start heating!).
Once we wrapped up that room (and got it all put back together) we moved to the motel rooms. With two of working together in each room we had all four done in no time (ok, it was a couple of days!). It was again just adding a fresh coat of paint to the walls and trim, but we added that trendy feature wall too! 😉
This week, we wrapped up the building “refresh” by painting all the exterior doors, inside and out. We were painting brown on brown (which is of course much more forgiving than, say, brown on green) so it a bit tedios,  but by the end of the job we had to admit that they really looked nice. Our GL said it made the building smile!
This evening I took a walk to down to the lake (and to get that picture of the door!) and thought you might like to see why this building is called Lakeview Lodge. These photos were taken from the same spot – looking at the lodge
And after a half turn
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Nice, right?
As for the guys – well, their work was a little more varied. The ‘hoped for’ plan for the guys was to begin the installation of laminate flooring that had been ordered months ago. This was going to be a massive project. Several buildings were involved and it was going to be an “all hands on deck†type of project once the flooring arrived. Unfortunately, it has yet to be seen. So the guys worked through a long maintenance list that included (but was not limited to) – installing new LED lights 13 rooms, rebuilding new stairs for the chapel, building and painting a ‘shed’ for an electrical panel on the edge of the lake, some miscellaneous painting (both exterior and interior), and re-modeling the bathroom at the shop to include a shower.
We’re still watching for a Flooring Sighting.
Enough pictures for today – more on our Lake Swan Camp month tomorrow!
Aside from the massive amounts of turquoise paint (did I mention that we used 7 gallons of that bold color!) and the wonderful connections we’ve made over the last couple of months, there was also a very memorable “Ladies’ Day Out”. Often when we SOWER ladies take off for an afternoon we enjoy a nice lunch and then check out the local thrift shops or other shopping venues. But last month we stepped it up a notch and enjoyed an afternoon at Bok Tower Gardens.
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