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Published: September 24th 2010
Serously, this is the Mississippi River!
The origin of it is about 120 miles north of Grand Rapids.(Blue Water Covenant Bible Camp)
This project has been different in the fact that we’ve spent nearly every weekend in Mankato with Megan’s family….what a treat for us. They’re only five hours away, which everyone up here thinks is reaaaallly far, but being from Montana we know that’s just down the road! That’s one of the reasons we requested this project. But it has meant that we’ve done less touring of the area, so you’re not going to get overly familiar with northern Minnesota from me!
That said, I do need to tell you that it’s just gorgeous here right now; last weekend when we came back the trees were yellows and oranges, and two days later we went into town and the maple trees had started to change, so the landscape has added bright red, maroon and pale reds. It’s kind of like fireworks~~you watch one and think it’s the best, and then another one goes off, and you’re sure it’s the best. We go around a bend in the road and the view nearly takes my breath away, and then we go a bit further and there’s one exploding with different colors that are even more magnificent.
A gentle evening!
Looking across Blue Water Lake. I can see why people travel up here to see the leaves. They’re changing so rapidly that we’re wondering if there’ll be any left when we pull out next Friday.
The men have been busy moving walls and doorways in two of the larger cabins. Whenever I see that it makes me thankful that I didn’t know Bob could do this while we were still in our house, or I would have pushed for moving walls rather than moving the furniture! It’s impressive. One of the cabins they put in some walls to make more sleeping rooms, and in the other they removed some walls to make it open for the counselors to have room to have staff meetings, and still have smaller rooms to sleep in.
Linda and I finished the painting in the rooms under chapel, which was such a fun project. So often the camps want things painted in solid colors, and usually pretty neutral ones that will be easy to touch up. On this one they said they wanted the kitchen, the dining area, and the living room painted white, and then wanted some kind of border put in each room~~they didn’t care what
They're just beginning to turn...
and it's definitely a promise of things to come. the borders were, just something. OOoooook…I’ll include pictures to show you what we did. When that was finished, Linda went to the craft cabin where Marilyn and Nettie were using leftover paint to cover the brown particle-board walls; it turned out so bright and cute that it just makes you smile when you go in! Perfect for a craft building! I went to help Joyce and Pat make (or in some cases remake) curtains for some of the cabins. They had taken apart some old curtains, and added headers and trim to give them a new look, and several more years of life! Also very fun to work on! Next week all the women will clean the kitchen while the men finish laying floors in their buildings.
I can't believe it's already the end of the third week.
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Lisa
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great paint colors!
I had NO idea the Mississippi would be clear up there! And the Accident Reduction sign made me laugh!