Only a week till Christmas!

Here we are at the end of our second Sower Project Week at Father's Heart Ranch.  Next week will be our official LAST week here but since we are only three hours from our next project we will stay and help here through the 5th of January.  This week we were blessed to be a part of the office Christmas party and enjoy their "traditional" Christmas dinner and it wasn't turkey and stuffing.  Instead we had tamales and flan.  It was a treat for sure. We also did some work this week.

Even though there are not really many trees, there always seems to be a lot of "stuff" around the ranch area.  So, I guess is Jesus willing washes my feet the least I can do is sweep the parking lot.

It has been getting chilly lately (well duh it is mid December) and as the moisture tries to get over the mountains to the west of us it continues to drop snow.  The snow levels are now down to about 4,000 feet.

Remember the Teen or "J" house and the trouble with the sewer on the south end.  Well it has moved to the north end.  After trying to "snake" two showers and a couple of clean outs we were not able to get the drains in the shower running again.  So, we decided that the only alternative left was to try to snake from the vent.  No luck there either!  There is so much hard water scale in the pipes that the snake will not go around the corners.  Next step!  Dig a trench under the house and remove the plugged pipes.  Will keep you informed hot that goes.

Found another shower which was leaking.  I fixed the leak with some caulk now the wall needs attention.

Seems like the water has soaked through a lot of sheet rock.

A couple pieces of green board and some patching plaster and some texture, now the wall is ready for some paint and trim.

There is a little patch of "grass" around the basketball court for the boys to run on.  BUT the rabbits like the nice soft and chewy grass too.  They come in at night and eat the grass clear down to the roots.  A couple of the boys and I mixed 5, 1-1/2 cubic foot bags of compost and with grass seed and try to fill the holes the rabbits have just created.  It's all in a days work for the Father.