Marquette4- Day3 (the last work day?)

We knew when we started that this was going to be a short work week.  We didn't quite get done today, though.  

We fixed the ceiling.  We got a tip from the director of the agency we partnered with in Crisfield to try oil based Kilz instead of latex.  We were ready to try it, but we had already bought some latex recommendation from Menards.  Lo and behold it worked!  We did put two coats on, but it covered and stayed.  

The chimney is done.  And the water heater is hooked up.  

The paint is done.  Looks good.  (in spite of Rod helping with paint.)  

But the trim didn't get done.  We rented a mitre saw and then three trips to Menards later, Howard bought a mitre box instead and we finally got some trim on the walls.  But not all of it.  We will finish it up tomorrow.  Probably by noon.  

Ron's leg is getting better every day.  Thank you for your continued prayers.  

I finally started organizing pictures.  -  BUT you know that Picasa (where we have been posting pictures) is going to that great website in the sky (scratches head and makes a funny face because isn't there something about "the cloud"  and clouds in the sky and so aren't all websites in the sky?  -  speaking of dead websites, did you know that AOL is still a thing? -  squirrel!)  AS I was saying, Picasa is going away, so I have to post our pictures someplace else.  (Flickr?)  It will happen soon.  

Thanks for the feedback on our website.  We have already taken donations via our website (try it!  You'll like it!)  And we are working on getting some of the "past trips" links fixed.  

Stay tuned to hear about how we were involved in what Don promises will become an Olympic game.  

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Are you a tool?

Christ has no body on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.  

(St. Teresa of Avila)

Re: Marquette4 Day2 workday

Continued prayers! Glad Ron is better.

In Christ,

Pastor Paul

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 10, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Rod Scofield <rod@bethetool.org> wrote:

First- the Ron update-  Ron was released seen and released last night.  It is cellulitis, and he was given some antibiotics.  He got a little extra sleep and came and worked with us again today.  As I type this, he is sitting at the table chatting with others who are still up.  Thank you for your prayers.  He is going well.  

The chimney job is coming along.  We took a long flexible tube/pipe and put it down the chimney and hooked it up to the water tank. We still have to cap the top, but had to wait for some mortar to dry.  We think we will be done by noon tomorrow.  

The paint job on the inside is having challenges.  We primed and "Killzed" the ceiling, but a lot of past "whatever-is-on-the-ceiling" is bleeding through.  We thought that when we sprayed the texture on the ceiling, it would cover because of the Killz we used but it looks pretty bad.  We are going to try again tomorrow to paint it.  It just got a lot harder to paint because of the texture.  We also textured the wall and will paint that tomorrow.  

Bob also did some landscaping.  He cut out three big growths of something like a tree/bush.  (Someone suggested they might be "tag elders?")   The back yard looks remarkable different.  

So all we have left to do is cap the chimney, Killz, prime, repaint the ceiling, paint the walls in the living room, clean up, and put all the furniture back.  

Big news!!!  Our website is launched!!!  www.bethetool.org is live!  Go and check it out if you would like.  (Rod is most proud of the FAQ's).  If you look at it, I'd love to have your feedback on it.  -  

We still haven't taken many pictures.  Erin has taken some pictures, but I just haven't put them on the internet yet.  Maybe tomorrow is the day for pictures.  

Someone asked me today about making donations.  You can do that on our website.  Give it a try!  (no really!  It's fun!)  

Ok-  Thanks for walking this with us! 

Rod

--

Are you a tool?

Christ has no body on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.  

(St. Teresa of Avila)

Marquette4 Day2 workday

First- the Ron update-  Ron was released seen and released last night.  It is cellulitis, and he was given some antibiotics.  He got a little extra sleep and came and worked with us again today.  As I type this, he is sitting at the table chatting with others who are still up.  Thank you for your prayers.  He is going well.  

The chimney job is coming along.  We took a long flexible tube/pipe and put it down the chimney and hooked it up to the water tank. We still have to cap the top, but had to wait for some mortar to dry.  We think we will be done by noon tomorrow.  

The paint job on the inside is having challenges.  We primed and "Killzed" the ceiling, but a lot of past "whatever-is-on-the-ceiling" is bleeding through.  We thought that when we sprayed the texture on the ceiling, it would cover because of the Killz we used but it looks pretty bad.  We are going to try again tomorrow to paint it.  It just got a lot harder to paint because of the texture.  We also textured the wall and will paint that tomorrow.  

Bob also did some landscaping.  He cut out three big growths of something like a tree/bush.  (Someone suggested they might be "tag elders?")   The back yard looks remarkable different.  

So all we have left to do is cap the chimney, Killz, prime, repaint the ceiling, paint the walls in the living room, clean up, and put all the furniture back.  

Big news!!!  Our website is launched!!!  www.bethetool.org is live!  Go and check it out if you would like.  (Rod is most proud of the FAQ's).  If you look at it, I'd love to have your feedback on it.  -  

We still haven't taken many pictures.  Erin has taken some pictures, but I just haven't put them on the internet yet.  Maybe tomorrow is the day for pictures.  

Someone asked me today about making donations.  You can do that on our website.  Give it a try!  (no really!  It's fun!)  

Ok-  Thanks for walking this with us! 

Rod

--

Are you a tool?

Christ has no body on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.  

(St. Teresa of Avila)

Re: Marquette4- Work day 1

Praying for Ron and the team.

In Christ,

Pastor Paul Marzahn

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 9, 2016, at 11:16 PM, Rod Scofield <rod@bethetool.org> wrote:

The funny thing is that we're all so busy, nobody really took time to take pictures.  So it's all words tonight, but I'll keep it brief.  

We started knocking down the chimney so we could vent the hot water heater with a new metal stack.  The crazy and cool things about it:

1-  The part we needed was donated or else we would have had to drive an hour to go buy one from another store.  A friend of Don and Dort's happened to have what we needed in his barn.  

2-  When we were taking apart the chimney, the bricks just lifted off.  The mortar holding them together was almost non existent.  We did not have to chip away a single brick. They all just came right off in our hands.  

3-  Bob and Howard rebuilt part of the chimney so it will be high enough to create a draft so it sucks up the gas exhaust from the hot water tank. 

Ron and Leanne and Erin worked on stripping wallpaper, taping, and starting to prime the living room.  We will popcorn texture, orange peel texture and hopefully paint tomorrow.  '

Matt and Marie D. hosted us for dinner tonight.  That was cool.  

And our friend, Janet A. did devotions with us.  

And then Janet and Rod and Leanne and Erin went swimming in Lake Superior at 9:00pm.  Beautiful sunset.  Cold water.  

Big Prayer Request!-  

Tonight after devotions, Ron's leg started swelling up.  He decided, through the advice of a nurse and other observers to go in and get it checked out .  (Looks like cellulitis to me)  At this minute, he is at the hospital.  Please pray for Ron's health.  

It's been a good day.  Hot out.  Remind me to talk about the weather forecasts some time.  

Thank you for your prayers and support!  

Peace!

Rod

--

Are you a tool?

Christ has no body on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.  

(St. Teresa of Avila)

Marquette4- Work day 1

The funny thing is that we're all so busy, nobody really took time to take pictures.  So it's all words tonight, but I'll keep it brief.  

We started knocking down the chimney so we could vent the hot water heater with a new metal stack.  The crazy and cool things about it:

1-  The part we needed was donated or else we would have had to drive an hour to go buy one from another store.  A friend of Don and Dort's happened to have what we needed in his barn.  

2-  When we were taking apart the chimney, the bricks just lifted off.  The mortar holding them together was almost non existent.  We did not have to chip away a single brick. They all just came right off in our hands.  

3-  Bob and Howard rebuilt part of the chimney so it will be high enough to create a draft so it sucks up the gas exhaust from the hot water tank. 

Ron and Leanne and Erin worked on stripping wallpaper, taping, and starting to prime the living room.  We will popcorn texture, orange peel texture and hopefully paint tomorrow.  '

Matt and Marie D. hosted us for dinner tonight.  That was cool.  

And our friend, Janet A. did devotions with us.  

And then Janet and Rod and Leanne and Erin went swimming in Lake Superior at 9:00pm.  Beautiful sunset.  Cold water.  

Big Prayer Request!-  

Tonight after devotions, Ron's leg started swelling up.  He decided, through the advice of a nurse and other observers to go in and get it checked out .  (Looks like cellulitis to me)  At this minute, he is at the hospital.  Please pray for Ron's health.  

It's been a good day.  Hot out.  Remind me to talk about the weather forecasts some time.  

Thank you for your prayers and support!  

Peace!

Rod

--

Are you a tool?

Christ has no body on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.  

(St. Teresa of Avila)

Be The Tool in Marquette again

We're calling it, "Marquette 4."  

We have a small ish team in Marquette doing a couple of things on the same house we worked on last year.  

We noticed last year, that the chimney needed to dealt with.  The bricks are getting loose due to disintegrating mortar from the weather.  Eventually, this chimney would fall down, we think.  So we are going to take it down before it falls down.  There is a question about how we are going to vent the hot water heater, but Howard and Bob have been working on solutions for a little while.  

We are also going to make the living room match the dining room and kitchen that we textured and painted last year.  

It's going to be a short trip-  only three work days, but we think a good set of projects and good team.  

We already have had some great time with Don and Dort, our hosts.  

Our team is Bob from Indianapolis, Howard, Ron, Erin, Leanne and Rod Sc.  Rod Erin and Leanne got in yesterday.  Took a little time doing some research at Menards and other places, and maybe waded in the water at Wemore's landing.  There really aren't any pictures yet, -  of team stuff anyway (just sunsets and people on the rocks)-  But we'll be sure to post some tomorrow.  

If you are getting this for the first time and want off this support team list, let me know and I'll take you off.  

OUR WEBSITE SHOULD BE LIVE ON TUESDAY!!!!  www.bethetool.org should go live sometime on Tuesday after long last!  

Ok-  and lastly-  Thank you for being with us!  Thank you for praying for us now and this week.  Safety, unity, finances, and efficiency I would say are what we need.  

Ok-  pictures tomorrow!  

Oh one more thing!!::::::::  We are going to try using MailChimp again soon.  I'm not sure how it works or how to fix what work last time we tried to use it.  

Ok-  that's really it.

Thanks for your prayer and support-

Rod

--

Are you a tool?

Christ has no body on earth but yours,

no hands but yours,

no feet but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out;

yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.  

(St. Teresa of Avila)