Post #7

Sunday, September 14, 2025.  Today was a beautiful sunny day.  We did a little cleaning, made chili for the potluck at 5:00 and watched the Vikings play one of their worst games!  Below is a pic of the view from our RV.  It's so beautiful and peaceful.

 

Monday we started week two of our Y2V experience (A Year to Volunteer is the name of the group we are working with). Gosh, did we work. I sanded drywall all morning. Enough that my arms were ready to fall off! In the afternoon I helped scrap paint off from a 24-paned glass cupboard door. Layne had the job of hanging new doors and adding the finishing trim. We are tired.

The rest of the week we painted, caulked, sanded more drywall, installed additional doors and new flooring.  

Thankfully, it was not all work.  Tuesday night we all gathered for a pizza dinner and Thursday the Park Staff had a catered lunch for us.  

On Friday, when the project was finished, it turned out to be one of  the best experiences and we were lucky to have the greatest group of people to work with.

Below are pictures of the group: 

Here are some of the 1700's & 1800's buildings at the park:

       

Our primary task was to renovate the first floor of a mid 1800's farmhouse into two separate apartments to be rented to park staff.  The following are pictures of the rooms before we started (or early in our deconstruction) and the results of our work.  While it is not yet move-in ready, The Park staff will finish the project this winter for rental next spring for some of the summer staff.  You can find the more details/stats regarding our work HERE.

One of the Kitchens:

 

      

One of the Bedrooms:

 

One of the Livingrooms:

   

     

  

 

     

A few miscellaneous pic of us at work:

   

 

Finally, a short video of the project wrap!

Now that the project is over, we said our good bye's and hope we'll meet again.  Friday, September 19th we left to drive to our next project. Stay tuned....later.