Spring work weekend - building community

Some of our most popular weekends are our intergenerational ones -- even the work weekends. We had over 100 attenders ranging in age from toddlers to over 80 years old. There were chores that fit everyone's ability, energy and attention.




The ice storm left us with lots of downed branches. Here are 2 of our willing volunteers hard at work.



Other jobs included cleaning out the herb bed



After most of the sticks were gathered, we had a controlled fire. We moved the leaves to be composted.



The ice storm of December '08 has given us lots of firewood.



One of our annual jobs is cleaning out the gutters. This year, Brandon & Tom Glenn volunteered for the job. Carolyn Heary is in the background raking leaves.



We kept the log splitter in use for the whole day.



Reminy, in the foreground, is helping move firewood to our shed.



Jacki's wonderful bread kept us going.



Along with Martha's wonderful matzo ball chicken soup.



We also moved some of the downed tree trunks from the campground to the downed beech tree logs. We'll have a sawyer come and make them into lumber which we will later use around Powell House. Remember the cherry and butternut used in the ACC renovations?



We moved wood from the campground to our wood shed and found that several passengers were "into" tractor rides, too. Mike loves to drive that tractor.