Wednesday breakfast / dinner

French toast....where.  Gone before I could focus.

Tomatoes 2 for a dollar...milk 3.99 a gallon....chicken on sale at the local Hansons...priceless.

Barbeque Chicken, potatoe salad for dinner

Brownies by the pan full..don't worry Moms we are eating very healthy..

Wednesday morning

Turkey in the yard

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Tuesday - a great day!

  Tonight we shared in worship with our brothers Brandon and Kimo. It was a one of a kind experience, as that worship was in one of their sacred places.

   We laughed, we sang, some shed some tears, but most of all, we talked about how we have already built a bond as brothers, sisters, and most of all as Christians!

                                                      Team : Mission Possible

   Today was an amazing day. To start off, the weather was pretty chilly, until the middle of the morning. Once we got there, we had to square off the holes so that we had undisturbed soils. Once that was done for all three cabins, we started working on the floor boards for the cabins. All the frames & joists were assembled, many boards were cut for the actual floor boards.
   The best part was the devotions. We went back to the to he camp grounds and built a fire in the teepee, and got to hear more of Brandon & Kimo's story for Spirit Journey. The motivation for me now as the trip continues, is the look in Brandon's face as he told us about his passion for for Spirit Journey living through us, the YSP group, as we find ways to amaze our selves and see the cabins built, and our work to be enjoyed by the Spirit Journey youth for years to come as they receive the same thing that I was able to through my best friend, brother and mentor. The youth that Brandon works with and his passion makes me grateful every day we are here, because I would be somewhere completely different without him.
                                                   - Joey Anderson, Team: Miracle Workers

great start to a great day

drilling thru the skids for the hurricane tie-downs

all the way thru a 6x6 beam

tamp our hole, tamp our hole, tamp our hole

trimming the half-lap on the floor boards

an engineer at work

2 centimeters lower!!!!

Yay!!! the last floor board

29 boards x 3 cabins

you do the math, our brains have turned to saw dust

we can make a fashion statement

Brandon bending nails with the crew

YES ! 

got the permit & inspection - Code Enforcement is happy.

We ARE HAPPY!

looking thru the top of the teepee at the trees & sky

 

Kimo sharing his culture and story around the camp fire

Brandon sang for us, a perfect moving song from the heart for evening devotions

a panorama of inside the teepee

Shouldn't we all be?

Tuesday morning

Keswick UMC, home for the week

Just go down the road a piece 'til the straight goes curve

                                  
                                 If you see the farm do-dad, well, you've gone tooooo far.

you can't miss His house.

Spirit Journey, Northport - Facebook page

Here's the link to Spirit Journey's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/SpiritJourneyNorthport

Mondays & rainy days go together . . . . . . .

Monday mornings on the job site seem to offer an opportunity to .... excell ....
plus the weather alerts were going off with severe weather warnings, possible heavy rains (luckily the worst weather split & went around us :)   :)   :)   :) !!!!!

Kemo & Brandon provided a blessing on the jobsite - in the Odawa language, an extra special way to start the week.

You can sense their passion and devotion in the overcoming of obstacles that seemed to pop up, from rocks (boulders), roots, concerned neighbors and code enforcement officials. Brandon's brother, Brent, came up from Grand Rapids (2-1/2 hours away) to help us go thru the code permit process at the Leelanau County Government Center - By the end of the day, the strength of God comes thru and all is good to go again!

morning organization & inventory of the materials

setting the transit & corner stakes - square must be square

pallets of block & stone for the foundations

Kemo's hand carved Eagle ends for the roof ridge beams

2 ends for 3 ridge beams for the cabins

change 1 -  no block & stone

pier posts (36" deep set in cement)

All God's creatures great and small

THIS is how you post-hole thru the roots & rocks

I found a dinosaur egg!!!!!!!

Jim & Chuck are spoiling us!

Ham steak with dijon-maple glaze, red potatoes, corn, salad bar

AND fresh warm brownies for desert.

The crew's may bend nails - 

The cooks make sure we have bread to share with each other.

Philippians 4:6

Yeah . . . . Northport!

    We've mad it in without any problems. Spent Sunday afternoon tubing at Rudolph Ranch. Think floating  down the lazy river at Cedar Point - only the water is fed directly from a GLACIER!!!!!!
   Cold doesn't even begin to describe it. The youth all let out screams (of joy ???) then silence as the cold took away your breath. It was priceless.

   Jim Post and Chuck Barton had a dinner of beef and chicken pasties (yes - pasties, think potpie without the pot). Desert was apple & cherry pies.

   Brandon Smith and his father, Kemo, spoke to the group about Spirit Journey. Their passion and drive for the Native American youth and the preservation of their culture are amazing.

our ride for the day

Cabin 

(actually an art piece from ArtPrize)

(check the history on Spirit Journey's facebook page)

Brandon Smith is next to Rod Ring

This will be an amazing week!