While onsite island activities have wrapped up for the season, project work continues. Jim & Ben from South Bend, IN removed one of the 1867 tower clockwork doors as a model for a missing storage cupboard door. Cathy Allchin coordinated recreating the needed door with long time volunteer Doug Noren of Spring Lake, MI. He […]
Jim reporting in: Found a couple screens in the back of the LH basement for the basement windows. Did get one installed. All windows restored are up and looking good. Hinged basement window One of these windows had the original brass hook and eye. Example of one of the original screens. Needs a paint job […]
Vice President Allchin reporting in from conversations with the island team… “The carpenters team is back on island and accomplished so much in just one day. Secured the doors on the solar power box, installed restored windows in assistant keepers quarters, and finished the deck off the back of the summer kitchen. We are so […]
Keeper’s Log 7/15/23 Saturday Barb Falkenhagen’s final report 7am temperature 62 degrees Winds out of the SW 8-10 mph Today was a finish all the little jobs day. Marty and Tom worked on the solar power system. Then Tom worked on landscaping the deck area. Just a bunch of little things. Then clean up started. […]
Keeper’s Log 7/14/23 Friday Barb Falkenhagen reporting again Day 7 for me. Day 14 for Tom McBride and Marty Rosalik Today was cooler than the past couple days. 7:20am temperature 62 degrees. Winds 5-10 mph out of the SW. Humidity is high. And it rained this morning. We had a short but powerful thunderstorm. After […]
Keeper’s Log 7/13/23 Thursday 8am Temperature 62 degrees Wind 0-5 Cloudy most of the night, but we only had a few sprinkles to start with. After breakfast, Marty pulled the Jackery’s and the EcoFlow and hooked them up to the solar power system. Maintenance items on the agenda today for all. Reset the intake hose […]
Keeper’s Log 7/12/23, Wednesday, Barb Falkenhagen reporting 7:30am temperature 60 degrees Wind none. Humidity yes, we had a high dew point last night. The bedding had that damp feel this morning. After breakfast we started in the lantern room again. We got all but 2 bolts out, that needed to come out. Took all the […]
Barb reporting in again on her, Tom & Marty’s activities: 8:30am temperature 62 degrees. barely enough wind to flutter the flag. Humidity low. Last night we had a nice thunderstorm between 12-4 with lots of rain. Stars were out at 4:30am but there was still a lot of wind. This morning after a hearty pancake […]
Another log from Keeper Barb “Temp at 7:30am 64 degrees Wind SSW about 15 mph Humidity “up there” The flag was “just a flying” most of the night. We had a couple of shutter dogs on the lighthouse that were loose and several shutters banged most of the night. Those were adjusted later today as […]
President Linda Posler reports: “South Fox has already seen some major improvements this summer: – Eric Schawbitz (on the island with Cathy A and Linda) did a yeoman’s job of moving the rocks from in front of the boathouse, cleared the pathways, groomed the boat landing, and prepared a pad for the solar installation – […]