Last week we accomplished…
It’s a bit like cleaning the house before the cleaning lady arrives. We’re preparing for Clean up weekend and although our approach is a bit ADD because there are so many components involved in so many jobs, things came together this week very nicely. The very best part of our world is that it’s never boring. We have opportunities to use a bazzillion different skills…many of which we acquire while we’re in the heat of the moment.
We have a fantastic team of help this Spring so magically it seems that if one of us doesn’t know how to do something, someone else in the crew does…I think of the whole process as alchemy at its best…when you come, you’ll see how much straw we’ve turned into gold!
Slight programming note about the layout of this page…the titles for each set of photographs won’t stay where they belong so please use your imagination, thank you.
There were the splinter jobs:
There were the repair jobs:
There were gardening jobs:
There were the paint brush jobs:
And there were the merchandising jobs:
Mountains of wood waiting for the splitter...the fuel for the lobsterbakes later in the summer
New guide logs in the tent parking area
Plenty of wood ready for the clean up weekend bonfire at the beach
Goat structures to be built
Park Benches to be sanded and urethaned
Walls that needed new surfaces
Water leaks in the bath house
Endless picnic tables need new boards and refreshed stain
Fresh wood chips on one garden
What did we do before Rubbermaid?
The new pathway along the stream
More chips for the corner garden, the bee balm promises to be beautiful this year
The old message board
A fresh new message board
A new floor cloth for the store
Fantasy Fish for the pleasure of you and me
Fresh new site signs to guide the way
By popular request, we'll have baskets of Maine wool for sale, perfect for spinning, felting and locker hooking
Vessels for my two favorite beverages...coffee and wine
And people ask what we do when we’re not open for guests…we prepare!