Windsor Baptist Church Kodiak Team - Thursday's activities

Greetings Windsor -

We continued in our service to the Kodiak Baptist Mission today by finishing up some of the projects we had been working on over the last few days:

1. Randy & Stephen finished the final grading of the trench that had been dug and French drain that was installed to prevent water from seeping into the office building.


2. Charlie & Jim finished putting a "shelf cap" all around a plywood perimeter in the gymnasium of the Heritage Center.

We also started a few new projects today:

1. Charlie & Jim began hauling large logs (felled trees) to help clear an area that will become a playing field and picnic area. Charlie got to drive the old Ford tractor he used two years ago while Randy buzzed around in his favorite backhoe continuing on the project with Stephen when Charlie and Jim went to help the others on a barn roof.


2. Ben, Matt R., Dan, Andrew, Matt L., George, Linda, & King, began work on the barn roof that is home to several horses that the camp uses for the kids who come to the preschool, by tearing off shingles and prepping it for new shingles.


3. In addition to helping on the barn roof, Linda and King weeded, mulched, and planted flowers in a flowerbed, King worked on painting a bench, Linda also mowed more grass.


4. Bev busied herself by taking pictures, sanding & sweeping in the gym, and ran errands to the two hardware stores on the island.

We enjoyed a dinner tonight with all of the camp staff and feasted on the Halibut some of the guys caught on Wednesday. Randy, Stephen, & Dan also ventured out tonight with some of the camp staff to hike the steep incline of Barometer Mountain. And after our devotions, some of our group went to "Glass Beach" which is all multicolored pieces of glass that have been smoothed down by the water.

We still have not seen any live Kodiak Bear but are hopeful that we will be able to do so before we leave on Saturday. Today the sun shown brightly--in fact, the weather has been pleasant (hardly any rain) all week. And the temps. have been in the mid 40's at night and the upper 50's during the day. Tomorrow we will finish our projects and try to spend some time getting to know the history and culture of Kodiak Island.

It is 11:30 pm as I type this and it looks like it is 8 pm back home. It has not gotten completly dark while we've been here. I suppose one knows that one is in Alaska when people can go on a long hike after dinner and not worry about it getting dark!

Respectfully submitted by Jim