It's Starting

Whelp! People have already started piling in for Workfest. One of the cooks, who is from Colorado, arrived Friday and is making her nest in the "cooks" bedroom. She is really nice and has been coming to Kentucky for about 26 years as a volunteer. That is amazing! Not all of those years have been for CAP, but I think most of them have. She loves it and I am enjoying having her here already because she keeps cleaning corners around the house. That is way cool. We even had a table sit-down breakfast today which is not normal for a Saturday. There were about nine of us and it was nice.

We had snow again today, and we were grounded on Thursday. This is really getting to be a drag and I do hope that we don't get any snow for Workfest. What does one do with 80 college students who cannot get out to the worksite? Glad that will not be my responsibility. I think Monday and Tuesday are looking good, with a possibility of snow for Wednesday, but let's all pray that nothing will come of that. All the participant families are getting excited and so am I.

This week was pretty busy at the office. I met a new elderly gentleman who was referred to me for some assistance in purchasing coal for heat for his home. By the time he got to my office and we completed all the paperwork, it was too late to go and purchase the coal. We set an appointment for 11:00 AM the next day and I took another volunteer with me to his home and then we made our way to the coal distribution office. I wasn't sure where we were going and when we got to this office, I realized that this man wasn't sure where we were going either. We happened to meet another vehicle there and they directed us to where we needed to be. It was interesting to watch how this was attended to.

Ray drove his truck onto the scales so they could get an established weight of his vehicle in their office. Then he drove out to where the coal piles were and they met him with a front loader type of thing. What was cute was the office dog jumped on for the ride as they made their way to the piles. He stared at us the whole way and I think he was kinda taunting us that he got to ride on the equipment and we could not. His name was Bud and he was pretty cool. Anyway.......

The back of the truck was loaded and then Ray made his way back to the scales to be re-weighed and charged for the pounds of coal. That was some darn good looking coal and according to Ray, burnt down to a small amount of ash so he really gets his monies worth from the 800 pounds. That is a good deal. Another good thing is that Ray agreed to have the elderly program volunteer come and visit him and check in to make sure that he is doing well. I am very pleased by that because Ray has some health issues and it will be good to have another pair of eyes on him.

I realize today that everything will be topsy turvey for the next 6 weeks. After Workfest finishes we will begin 2 weeks of Youthfest. Is very similar but the volunteers coming in are high school age instead of college age. The Youthfest volunteers do all their jobs with the elderly participants. This will be great to help get many small jobs done such as house cleaning, yard clean up, painting and some small carpentry type things. They might help with some of the clean up from Workfest, but mostly the focus is on our elderly participants. Again, it is a wonderful thing to see the relationships develop between the volunteers and the families.

My church sent me the DVD's of The Truth Project. I am thrilled to share this series with the house. Now that we are so close to Workfest I am not exactly sure when we will get to watch them, but I know that we all wanted to watch them together so we can have some good discussions. I look forward to that immensely.

Once again, hope all is will with you and yours. May God bless your day richly.
Jane