The team got a little further than this before running out of wood. Additional wood is scheduled to come out with next week’s team.
Others on the team have been improving the path from the dock to the sidewalk using the ever present quagga mussels for gravel.
Meanwhile, Barb has begun the unenviable job of moving residual flooring material from the original wood.
A few holiday-themed photos from the team.
Photo credit: Barb Falkenhagen
Team 5, consisting of Barb, Linda, Cathy & Tom, arrived on today’s afternoon team turnover (a day early to avoid parades and crowds in Leland on the 4th.)
Plastering and lantern room work are no longer on the agenda. Instead, they arrived with wood to work on adding a lean-to to the shed. They plan on making tweaks to the water system, adding bollards to the landing area and beginning work on the kitchen floor.
The team reported seeing distant fireworks from multiple mainland displays.
Barb is always good reporting the weather, something historic keeper’s logs were famous for: “Temperature at 9pm was 68, Barometer was 29.88 steady. No wind.” Lovely sleeping weather.
One of the objectives of this latest team has been to clear the area around the boathouse to facilitate later work projects.
They also cleared the area beneath these cedars, a nice spot to sit & enjoy.
Volunteers Sue & Nancy. Sandra White photo.
Friends Nancy and Susan came out to join team lead Sandra this morning. Their focus will be mostly on landscaping projects including trying to improve trail access from the west beach. Many boaters find the west beach more friendly as it’s sandy versus the stone-strewn landings nearest the lighthouses. Historic keepers walked these trails for family outings as reported in oral histories.
The forecast for these first time volunteers is quite nice for their stay; high 60’s and lower ’70s, unlike the high temps forecast for inland locations. And they’ll enjoy a full moon later this week.
Tara and Bekah applied their creativity to latest round of painting.
Here’s a few of them installed:
Meanwhile, Patrick has continued with the window cover project and Sandra’s landscaping project is ongoing.
Here’s Bekah readying paint supplies in the AK kitchen.
And Tara, at work painting the bedroom.
Here’s Sandra taking a break from landscaping chores at the entry to the kitchen where Kathy Sanders worked last week. We’ve left woodwork unpainted as we’d like to strip it.
Patrick, meanwhile, got detoured by a water pump issue. We’re grateful for his many skills.
And while our teams work hard, they also appreciate the beauty around them.
All photos courtesy of Sandra White
After last week’s weather-adjusted turnover, today’s weather cooperated for a smooth transition.
Here are new volunteers Bekah, Tara & Patrick, with Board President Linda Posler as their escort, as they left Leland Harbor this morning.
The team got to work immediately. By mid-afternoon, Patrick had changed the oil & sparkplug in our inverter generator (seldom used now that we have solar, but an important backup.) He then moved on to work on a long-neglected window. Meanwhile Tara gave tours to three groups of boaters who took advantage of the good weather to visit.
Sandra, our team lead from last week, remains “on island” for two more weeks.
Variety is this team’s middle name.
Here’s Jeanne & Sandy cleaning earlier this week. They’ve washed windows, weeded, and swept.
Kathy Sanders has been scraping and priming with a focus on the Assistant Keeper’s apartment we use for volunteer housing.
Sandra White has focused mostly on landscaping projects. This photo is from early in the week; this area is all nicely trimmed.
The shed has been cleaned & organized. We still need more space and we’re hoping to do some additional construction later this summer, but, for now, it will be much easier to access things.
In addition to clearing brush around the back side of the boathouse, the team has cleared stone that might otherwise be a fall hazard for our upcoming carpentry team planning to do wood replacement using the hemlock sent out last year.
Due to a developing weather situation, team turnover was moved up to Thursday afternoon from Saturday morning’s original plan. Team 1 scrambled to finish up projects, clean and pack up while Team 2 members rearranged plans to go early and stay longer.
Here’s Sandy W., Sandy C., Kathy and Jeanne ready to depart. Team 2 has a variety of grounds, painting & cleaning projects planned.
In between rain showers, the station now has an “on demand” hot water shower thanks to Tom McBride who engineered and built this fine new facility. Our volunteers are most appreciative of this latest improvement.
