When Sunday arrived the morning was quite cool so Billie was able to wear the beautiful fur coat that a lady from Miller had out grown. It really is a beautiful thing. The coat is nice too.
This is the road leading to the campsite. believe it or not, there is room for a 40 foot motor home pulling a pickup to maneuver down this path. It is pretty tight in some spots but passable.
While we were walking around on Monday we spotted damage to the old pump house. We were asked to repair the damage and as we started deconstructing the building we found that the termites had almost eaten the whole back out of the building and the falling limbs had destroyed the roof.
Two days later we had removed the bad sections, rebuilt the back and the roof and shingled said roof.
Meanwhile, the campers have planned a "show" this coming week end so the ladies started cleaning and organizing the costume room so they could find just the right costumes for the show.
Boy, there are a lot of costumes to be sorted and stacked!
We were just ready to start another project when Roger,the young guy in the picture, got an emergency call form the "Fish House" (where the campers are staying) that the elevator had gone to the top and would not go down. That is a real problem as there are several of the campers in wheel chairs. After several hours of searching we found that of the cables had caught on the frame of the elevator on the way up and broken two wires in the loom. After a splice job and a test, the elevator was back in business.
Meanwhile, the girls decided that they would like to have several poodle skirts for the show. Since there weren't any poodle skirts in the costume room, the ladies set to work making them.
The job of cutting, sewing and fitting the skirts took a couple days....
...and nights to complete.
Roger and his family live in the house called "The Crossroads". It has been used for several things in the past but now it is their residence. The area leading to the bedrooms was open to the living room on the top and they wanted it closed. So, we set to adding the wall extensions to make it soundproof.
To keep the mess at a minimum we did all of the cutting outside on the street in front of the house.
There were too many costumes for the available hanging space we we purchased a roll around rack for them on which to hang the costumes they planned to use. Some assembly required?
Friday was a rainy day so we decided to take a drive. We ended up in Branson at lunch time and decided to eat at the College of the Ozarks, also known as Hard Work U. We visited there last year and were really impressed with the quality of the dining and the fact that the students were the servers. On our way into the dining room we passed the dessert tree.
After consuming our lunch we stopped for a photo with our server.
Them Billie took some time to sit by the fireplace in the lobby.
The school is very supportive of the nation and military. The above photo shows a group of the founding fathers kneeling in prayer and the US flag being sewn.
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