MMAP June, 2013, CEF Week 2, Windsor Mills, MD

The team for this project is small, with three couples.

We have worked with both of the other couples before, so it is nice that the friendship is already established.  Since ladies are not required to work, it is nice to have other ladies that like to work as well.

During the second week, the new roof was finished as well as the repair of the leak and subsequent repair of the wall.

The ladies finished painting the bathroom and the conference room

including the molding and chair railing.

Paul removed the carpeting and upgraded the electrical outlets, switches and will be installing lighting fixtures in the conference room.

Dave and Bobby worked on replacing the doors on a shed.

Byron began installing tile in the bathroom.

Each week, we ladies took a “ladies day out”.  

The first one, we heard about an outlet mall in Leesburg, VA, about an hour and half away. It was all about the journey on this trip.  It was beautiful going through the country 

and small towns.  We stopped for breakfast on the way, then had lunch at the mall.  On the way home, we stopped at a couple of antique stores we had passed on the way.

The second one, we went to Sykesville.  This town is about 25 minutes away and we passed it on the way to Leesburg, and saw it had a teahouse. 

We made the reservation for noon, but arrived at 10 so we could check out the stores.  None were open until 11, though, so we window-shopped until they opened.  The tea was fantastic!  We had so much fun!

After eating, we went into a hair salon to get haircuts and the proprietor, who was in the middle of coloring a client’s hair stepped up to us and told us as we entered and told us  it was by appointment only.  Then she said she could cut one.  So Lois stayed, and the “other” Lois and I took our bags to the car (we HAD to buy cupcakes and scones to take home!)  When we got back, Lois was laughing..... the gal had told her she was afraid of us when we entered, because the week before there was  three women who were robbing the stores in town!!  She figured she could take on the Lois’s, but not “The Tall One” (yours truly!!) She then told us they had been arrested.  My mouth just opened and I told her we escaped!!  We then remembered the sheriff following us into one of the stores and was just shooting the breeze with the clerk for a couple of minutes, then left.  Reminded me of Julialn.

This gal told us he was probably checking us out!~ It was so funny, we laughed all the way home!

The time goes so fast!  We only have a week left!