The end of the SOA Project!

Sorry it has been so long since I posted a new entry.  We have been so very busy and most of what we ahve been doing is painting (and I was being a bit lazy).  But, now that the end of our SOA project (Sower On Assignment) has come, I will try to catch you up to where we are.

Remember the glass panel which got dropped and broken?  There was six blocks left unbroken and we were able to obtain the remainder of the blocks.  I rebuilt the panel before we left to visit the projects in Montana and Rapid City.  While we were gone the crew at SBA installed the panel and this is what we saw when we returned.

The new waterpump for the scraper had just gotten there before we left so when we returned I installed the waterpump and---

---away we went hauling dirt.  The only problem was after 2 and 1/2 loads the return hadraulic hose sprung a leak.  We were able to pick up a replacement the next day when we made a Walmart run to Huron.

The new Event Center (gymnasium) is an impressive structure.  This is a view from the west.

Thgis view is from the north and is the main entrance.

When you enter into the main entrance you are greeted by the new concession stand (not quite completed yet).  The ceiling at the rear of the concession stand is 15 feet high.  We had to have the assistance of a scissor lift to get there.  We called it our painter's raise.

One of the first rooms painted is this one.  It will serve as the 3rd-5th grade classroom.

The second room painted was the room that will be the K-3rd grade.

The finished boys restroom, including mirrors and dispensers.  All of the components in the restrooms are automatic, the flushing valves, the sinks, soap dispensers and the hand driers.

The new music room is very spacious, spacious enough to hold a Chapel service there when it was 96 degrees in the Chapel and 72 in the music room.  We built the cubbies in the background to hold the instruments.

The floor in the weight room is covered with an interlocking tile to protect the floor from the occasionally dropped weight.  The tile is made from recycled tires with a covering of hogs hair.  They should last for a very long time.

Back at the house we have the daily fued of the hummingbirds.  This one thinks this is his feeder and he is telling the other two sitting in the tree to stay away.

 

When he leaves the other two came down and ate together.

On September 3 we recieved an inch of rain, the first real rain since April.  The only problem was the marble sized hail and the 35 mph wind.  It stripped the beans from the soybean plants.

Our second Chapel service was a presentation form the crew that went to Honduras during the summer.  It was exciting to hear how the students were affected by the event.

At the end of the September Project the Sowers will all be headed south for the winter.  Before we departed we had to take the couple in the center to DQ to celebrate their 54th anniversary.  Congratulations Ed and Laura.

 

As we were headed out on Friday morning we were halted by a group of kids in front of the office.  It was the freshman history class and they had made a poster for us.  We will cherish it.  Thank you Mr. and Mrs. McClain.

 

After the nine hour trip to the farm in Kansas we pulled into the motorhome site and went wearily to bed.  The next morning we were greeted by the local residents.

This group seemed to be asking, "what is that big white thing sitting there?  It wasn't there when we went to the creek for water yesterday."

 GOD IS SOOOOO GOOD!