COATS OF MANY COLORS

We are experiencing colors all around us. As you know we love to ride in the country and see the foliage colors change. The colors are getting nice but the most beauty will come in a week or two. This picture is just a few feet from where we are parked. The day this was taken was perfectly still as you can see on the water. How could mankind ever duplicate this beauty - no way. What a riot of color it will be in just a few days.

Dad continues to break down and put up walls, floors, fixtures and more in the attempt to restore some semblance of beauty/tidiness to two cabins. Like always when a remodeling project is tackled unexpected obstacles show up. The obstacle facing them now is to lay new tile in the cabin, bathrooms, hallways and entry ways. Aside from the row directly down the middle all the tiles must be cut. Remember how old buildings are never square? Same true of these cabins. Age has taken its toll on the building, somewhat like age does to our bodies as we grow older. A creak here, a moan there, a sagging here or there, loss of strength in the extremities, etc. you get the picture. Wonder if RVICS could take care of some of these complaints, bet they would have more business than they bargained for. They better just stick with material restoration.

My group of 2 or 3 is still busy painting our coats of many colors. We should start on the floor tomorrow so that is exciting, we think. Most of the walls have been done with primer and 2 or 3 coats of paint. Believe me we know how to clean brushes and rollers. This room is the recreation room so gets a lot of traffic. We do hope those that use it will appreciate the work that went into it. But still, we were called to paint and the appreciation is just a neat benefit if it comes.

There was a women's retreat here at camp the past weekend. Not a large group but a very joyful group. We ate with them for 3 meals so we got to meet some of them. The first night we ate with them we sat by 2 young women. They asked where our "real" home was and the one was very interested in that. (I don't think she was playing dutch bingo) We came to know that her husband grew up in Inwood and his name was Ter Wee. After a few more questions we discovered that her mother-in-law was a sister of Harlan Kooima. Small world, yes? We have been emailing and learning a little more of each ones family. She had triplets almost 5 years ago. She was surprised we know as much about her at we did. Hey, grandparents do not let kids and grandkids go without talking about them once in a while. What could be better do than brag about our kids and grandkids.

We continue to have good health and enjoy (most) our work. The interaction and devotional times are such a blessing to us. Hope you are all doing well and enjoying the unusually warm weather in NW Iowa and SD the last couple of days.

We will be leaving this project a day early so will be leaving on Wed. Sept. 29 after work. We hope to be in Sioux Center by Thursday afternoon. We are leaving then so we can attend the Northwestern event. We plan to be home until Sunday noon if all goes well.

Love you much! Dad and Mom/ Marilyn Wilmer