Our newest Board Member Sandra White keeps knocking it out of the stands. She helped open and close the station this season, led the hard-working “Landscaping” team and recently created these engaging shorts. She’s definitely a “Keeper.” Click here to see our “Engineer” team at work. The “Carpenter” team’s work can be seen here. This […]
Buildings are secured. The flag is down. The closing team has returned home. We’re thankful for an excellent season. Sandra White photo.
The antique apple trees continue to do well. They got a minor trim from the closing team this week. While the ideal time to trim is late winter, they seem to survive our delayed pruning. Look at all that fruit! A number of years ago, curious about what variety they were, we took a sample […]
Jim got to work caulking and painting the workshop trim he replaced on his prior trip. He also installed the station sign above the door. Others on the team continued with grounds work. The lighthouse is increasingly visible with this season’s hillside brush removal.
The season closing team of Sandra, Linda, Cathy, Tom & Jim headed out this morning. If plans hold, they will return Tuesday afternoon.
One of the remaining projects was repairing this broken window pane on one of the tower windows. The team scoped this out on their prior trip, allowing appropriate supplies to be procured. While glazing can be patched in place, removing old glazing & glass and reinstalling new is best done on a flat surface. Unfortunately, […]
Ben’s been working on the summer kitchen floor repair for several days now. The “soft” floor was even softer underneath. After all the old material was cleared away, he could start to rebuild the supports. Trying to remove as little historic material as possible, he had to angle and piece wood to create a stable […]
Soffit reconstruction and painting is complete. Doesn’t it look nice? Ben continues reworking the summer kitchen floor. As yesterday’s photo showed, there was a lot of rotten wood to clean out, supports to be rebuilt and only then can the flooring itself be repaired. James meanwhile has been clearing behind the 1867 Lighthouse and Assistant […]
The team is finishing up the soffit work and starting on their next challenge — floor and foundation repair in the summer kitchen. The original construction is all “true dimension” lumber so repair parts will need to be fabricated to fit. This is another of those “bigger than a breadbox” projects one runs into maintaining […]
The “carpenter team” arrived noonish and started in immediately to complete work on the rear soffit around the gutter. They had replaced the majority of the soffits on their earlier trip this summer. In this corner, they reconfigured a troublesome downspout connection but needed some specific wood to complete the repair properly. James (left) and […]