Finish at Phoenix and travel to Truth or Consequences, NM

We finished the project at Phoenix Christian with the installation of a little more wiring, a set of security cameras and a welding project.

On a warm, sunny afternoon Billie spent some time repainting some game squares which we never did figure out how they were used.

Then we started mounting and wiring security lights to the 3rd and 4th grade classrooms.

Do you see the deck on the left of the above picture?  That is where all of the wiring had to be run since the attic was all of 2 feet tall and this was the entrance to the wiring space.  There was about 14 inches under the deck and it had rained a week before we did the wiring. Fun!

To connect all of the wiring to the control box we had to pull the wire under the class room and we weren't even going to try to go under there.  With the two of us and a long piece of PVC we were able to drag all of the wires across and pass them through the floor just above where Billie was sitting.

Then we went to the pre-school.  This wiring had to go through the attic and there was one way in.

 

Again, the space in the attic was too short to get into so again I had to use my capable right hand woman (love the sound) to help me pull the wires all the way to the center of the attic.

Then we got a call that someone had broken into the area behind the church by tearing out a couple of bars in the fence.  You can bet that they won't tear these bars out!

We did have a bit of trouble with the wire feeder on the welder.  Too bad it was a red one instead of blue.

The final project was to extend the gate used by the school busses.  It seems that the bus drivers couldn't get the 8 foot wide bus through a 16 foot gate so we made it 22 feet.

And here we are in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.  If we would stay here long enough we could harvest the pecans off of the little tree on our site.

Of course, since it was still a week until Christmas we had to, once again, set up our home to prepare for the anniversary of the blessed event.

This is the church we are looking for here.

Since the students are all out for Christmas it is a perfect time to do some wiring in the computer lab.  In fact, that is why we have come here a little early at the request of the Sower coordinator.

But it has been a bit cooler here than it was at Phoenix!  More later.