Maintenance Pizzas

Thursday was the final day of the maintenance team's opportunity to cook lunches here at Lurecrest... or at least for a little while. It seems that while the SBS staff and students enjoyed our delicacies they are eager to have their real chef back. We here at the maintenance team decided to go out with a bang so we made pizzas. Not the sissy little pizzas that we usually have with vegetables and chicken and whatnot.

No good cook would make pizza without a good pepperoni pizza to start. We began by covering the entire surface of an ordinary cheese pizza with pepperonis, the we heaped a mountain of shredded mozzarella over that to make the "Ultimate Pepperoni hidden under your mozarella umbrella Pizza".

Our second pizza of the day was a cheese pizza... a layer of mozzarella followed by a layer of cheddar followed by a layer of parmesan, which was then covered by another engulfing layer of mozarella,... which we then dusted with what the people at McCormick like to call 'Italian' seasoning. This we named the "Ultimate layer upon layer of wholesome refined milk goodness 3-Cheese Pizza."

The final pizza had to be something special... something that our cook would never even attempt... and we'd had an idea for a pizza that we've been yearning for since the beginning of the year. We cooked up some bacon and hamburger and brought out a pile of cheddar cheese to make the "Ultimate Greezy Bacon-Cheeseburger clog your arteries and drop you dead where you stand Pizza."

We also made a few personal veggie pizzas for those who try to eat more healthy... but we burnt them to a crisp and through them away... Mwuahahahahah!!!!!

One of these things is not like the other....

So, as mentioned yesterday, breakfast here on the maintenance team is often unusual with Drew Jones around. Today was no different. While he did manage to eat his breakfast on a plate today (an oddity), he opted to eat last night's dinner for breakfast. Yep, that's beef stroganoff... with a whole bunch of texas pete and some cheddar cheese chunks in it... washed down with a lovely Diet Mountain Dew at 8am. Nate and Jeremy feasted as well. Nate's breakfast today... toasted belgian waffles, with butter and syrup of course. Jeremy chose to make himself a biscuit and some bacon... one biscuit half with Boysenberry jam and the other covered in honey. He also had a bowl of Blueberry Muffintops cereal, which he never stops boasting about... you can find them in large discount cereal bags at most Super Wal-Marts.

A Busy Day

So today started off with Drew making another breakfast concoction that disturbed Nate and Jeremy. We have decided that we are going to share these creations with ya'll that you may share in our laughter as Drew eats random things for breakfast ranging from Lake Lure freshwater clams, tilapia from the night before, chicken patty sandwiches, and todays feature;

"Drew's Hot Mocha Granola Mellow":
Coffee, Milk, melted Chocolate Chips, Marshmellows, Granola, and Raisins

And yes, he eats breakfast every morning from a cup, because he can. In fact, he once ate a regular egg breakfast with us on a plate and instantly commented how nice it was to have a real breakfast. Big Nate then made the comment... "Drew, we have breakfast everyday, you just eat yours in a cup."

It was a little cold today also... so Nate put on his warm mask... kinda creepy isn't it?

Drew was being naughty again so we made him scrub the toilets in the dining hall after he did dishes... as you can tell, he kinda enjoys it... but then again, he did have marshmallows in his breakfast.

The Ike Martin

For the past two weeks we have been blessed to have Isaac Martin up here working with our maintenance staff. Ike, as we here at camp call him, is the son of our fearless leader, Executive Director Jerry Martin. Ike has grown up here at Lurecrest and worked on staff off and on for the last few years. He had recently been working in California doing some various odd jobs there but has just moved back to North Carolina.

Ike is one of those blessed individuals who can do just about anything, and the things he hasn't done before he is plenty smart enough to figure out very quickly. Here on the Lurecrest Maintenance team that is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing in that we try to utilize the talents we have the best way we can; meaning less painting, mulching, leaf-raking, and ditchdigging. It is a curse in that some of the jobs around here aren't the funnest of things to do... such as fixing a waterline when the temperature is hovering around freezing.
So here is Ike, blessing us with his presence in a frigid cold ditch as we fix a waterline, hurray!!! Be thankful I spared the pictures of the poopy pipe we had to work on, oh, and just to inform you... poopy pipe = sewage line. Praise God for Ike Martin, he has put countless hours in here at Lurecrest over the years trying to help make this place be a facility where people can see Christ. Yet another one of our brothers who see Jesus here at camp and desires that others will too. Thanks for helping up here Ike, we'll see you again soon enough we hope.