Our RVICS project for March 2010 was Palomar Conference Center, Palomar Mountain CA. Palomar Christian Conference Center, located on 320 acres, 32 miles NE of Escondido CA, adjacent to the Palomar Mountain State Park, has served Southern California for over 50 years.

It rained during the first week of project so the men worked indoors. We installed transition strips to the newly installed tile in the dining area and stained newly installed base. We also installed lighting in the shop loft, taped and textured drywall patches, repaired light fixtures, and replaced bulbs. Weather was great the remainder of the project and the men worked outdoors. We used the saw mill to transform cedar logs into 4x12 planks then used the planks and some pt 2x6 to construct 220 feet of benches for a new fire circle at “Strawberry Flats”. During our last days on project, we used left over 4x12s to replace old benches at fire circle two. All the benches were routed, sanded, and water sealed. During our spare time, we sealed porches on staff trailers, replaced a dryer in the laundry, finished window trim, repaired well electrical, repaired a water leak in one staff trailer, painted trailer skirting, and fed horses while staff was away to a conference.

One of the ladies spent the project working in the office. The other ladies recovered 66 dinning room chairs, cleaned in the kitchen, and worked in the laundry.

Our first tour day found us visiting Dudleys Bakery in St Ysabel, Camp Wynola, historic Julian, wild flowers in Borrego Springs, and the Anza Borrego State Park visitors center. Our second tour day found everybody spending time with family. Jim and Bette had a visitors from Georgia, Ed and Mary visited family in Hemet and the next weekend, Bea and Barney had visitors from Sacramento. Our third tour we visited Doane Valley and the Palomar Observatory and then went to Poway where we were treated to a tour of General Atomic's Aeronautical (builders of the Predator and similar pilot less aircraft).