Center Preview

This morning our family all headed over to the center in Caselle to start cleaning and prep for painting. There was still quite a bit of Antonietta's stuff that didn't get cleared out prior to her leaving for vacation. However, with some garbage bags and some organization we were able to get things looking fairly clean and at least to a point where we can move around stuff and start to paint on Friday. Jonathan removed mirrors, shelving, wiring etc. from the walls and then began to spackle holes and damaged walls. I was able to wipe down walls, sweep, remove curtains, and start taping around windows and outlets. We spent 3 hours there working and felt good about getting a jump start on things.

The before shot in July, prior to getting Antonietta fully moved out.

The kids were not thrilled to be there so long, but they too helped do some things. I think our reference to "center" is starting to sink in for them. They soon will be very acquainted with the place as it is their future church.

I will have to post another time on "August in Italy," and all that that implies. Sufficed to say, it is a ghost town around here. People are on vacation for 2 weeks, 3 weeks or the whole month. Therefore, trying to get help on the center in August is quite difficult. However, we are thankful that Danilo is around and available to help this Friday. He and Jonathan will begin the painting process and hopefully make some good headway.

Our center is on the end of the middle building with the seranda closed. It is right next door to a hardware store, a bread store to the right of that, and then a bar on the corner of the far left building. It's a great location and already having our windows open today to clean we had people stop by and ask about Antonietta etc.

Here is a very rough and poor video of the center, but we at least wanted to show you a glimpse of what things look like. It is about 45 sq. meters, so not that big and all the more difficult to try to capture it on camera with some perspective. One wall of shelves will be removed from the back room, a partition will be put up to divide the front and back rooms, the tall shelving seen in the front of the store will stay, bathroom is teeny-tiny (but at least we have one!) and that's about it. For what it's worth, here you go: