Sarge and a weedwacker!?!

This week at Lurecrest we had a few visitors come and knocked out a bit more work. We did some landscaping, got more of our grounds cleaned up, and prepped the pool to where it's almost ready to paint.

Drew Jones came and visited us again for a few days because he had some business to do in Asheville. We had our camera ready and were waiting another crazy breakfast but he slept in both days and didn't eat anything wierd so sorry about that, maybe next time. We did want to give him some love so we snapped a quick pic of him before he had to go home.

We also had another visitor who we have been meaning to introduce ya'll to. This young man is Duke Hale... who comes to us from the wonderful city of Charlotte. He has actually came the last few weeks periodically so we have had him doing all kinds of fun work. He asked us to treat him like any other 25 year old who comes here to work so we have made him spray Round-up, mow lawns, pick up sticks, hit things with hammers, paint, and pressure wash. J-Bo told him that to wear gloves is to be weak so Duke has been strenuously developing his "man hands". After a bunch of blisters and his third week here with us they are doing well.

This yet another wonderful picture of our beloved ESBS student David Sargent. He's our maintenance servant a few hours every week and you can see here that he conquered the upper field with nothing more than a weed-wacker. These two pictures of him are good enough to be t-shirts material.

Sugaw Church Work Crew

This last weekend we had a wonderful group of folks from Sugaw Presbyterian Church come to help us out doing some work. One of them brought his tractor and helped us fix the poles at the volleyball court... so they are straight again.

Sarah Warden, who has worked on the Outdoor Adventure Team for the last two summers, also came to work with us. She brought her friend Dana and they worked hard all day painting the settling tank and deep well. They were tired of painting Saturday night but were a huge help for us on the maintenance team.

Here are two of the girls from Sugaw who helped us finish painting the craft shop. Now it's little renovation is complete... we hope everyone will enjoy it when they get up here for the summer.

Here is another painting squad from Sugaw. These ladies painted the interior of Cabin 5 for us, covering up all the writing that was all over the beds and walls so it has a little fresher look.

This the rest of the Sugaw crew helped clean up the Leap of Faith area and Victory Circle, we're hoping that the Victory Circle can be revived in the program this summer... at least it's been cleaned up a bit.

The old Victory circle has seen essentially no use over the last 5+ years but it's still in pretty good shape. Us Lurecrestboys would love to see it used again,... so we figured we would invest some time having some folks cleaning it up.

We can't be thankful enough for the crew that came up this last weekend, sorry it took a while to get the post up... we've spent some time resting from a long last few weeks. We'll have some more fun stuff for everyone soon. Thank you again to the folks from Sugaw... can't wait to see you again this summer.