Framers

 We had 11 framers come in and start building the decks. Most of the holes had drained from the previous weekends rain.

 The wire keeps the mice out of the fiberglass which is only under the yurt floor.

They worked most of Tuesday and all of Wednesday before the rain came in. Three of the  decks have the piers cemented in.

Prepping for some Yurts

First Baptist Church of King City had some men come and help drill holes for the next few yurt decks. This happened the first two weekends of November.

They drilled 100 holes over two weekends. There were about 8 of them each weekend. Each deck has 25 piers supporting it. We did have several auger bits to choose from. We wanted the holes 12" in diameter and 30" deep.

There is a clay layer down about 12 inches that was pretty challenging. It was not present on the west side of the camping area, but the east side was a lot of work.They brought the electric jack hammer.

These pictures of from the second weekend. These men worked hard to get these holes drilled

First Babtist Church, Stockton

This past week was fun. We had about 20 Jr High folks come to Whisper Canyon. What surprised us is the wanted to work(voluntold).

Here Roger and some student assemble a soccer goal.

There was some demolition they took on. This was a porch to a former mobile home.

The big job was removing some steps and stairs and a water slide we have in the canyon. It was built with donated, non pressure treated wood and has been archived for now.

 This is Andrew, he usually had this look on his face

The  trail back up to camp is in the right hand side of the picture. The posts had supported a bridge.

It will take me several trips to remove the old steps.The demolition was done safely

We had a Quonset style tent storing Yurt building supplies We needed to move. They helped with that project as well.

They seemed to eat well

They did just hang out in the pole barn as well. Pretty sure they had a fun time during their week at Whisper. Glad they came to the camp, they helped a lot with "chores"

Visitor to the camp

This peacock showed up about 3 weeks ago. He currently is hanging out near the house we stay in,

It is a good thing as he eats bugs and snakes. It is a bad thing as he poops without discretion. We can tell he likes our back deck and the shade canopy we have up. 

Wednesday 4-2

We needed to add some drainage on the driveway to the rental. With a little poking around, Emmit discovered a 12" steel pipe that was plugged but intended for that purpose. We had several of the boys run pipe into the pipe to clear it.Victor and Steven are working here.

A little supervision from Jon 

                R.J. helped on the downhill side. It took more than an hour to clean it out. It stopped raining about breakfast time.

This was only the second night they could have time at the amphitheater. Here some of them were coming in. We were all ready for a break in the rain.

Monday 3-31

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The rain held of till about 3:30 PM and rained till about 7 PM , giving us about 1/2" The ground should soak it up pretty quick. Tomorrow is supposed to be wet as well.

We actually got the Yurt mostly completed. At least enough so that some students could stay in it if their tents get wet tonight or tomorrow. Steve is putting talcum powder on the insulation so the vinyl  l cover can be adjusted.The students were in town all day, hence no pictures of them in camp.

PBCC week

So we worked on our third Yurt. Steve Aamold is seen here as we start putting rafters up.

The advance team on Saturday was about 30 students. This is from Sunday evening, food for over 100 students and adults. We did get .25' of rain overnight. It had minimal impact.

Even the hummingbirds were excited. We counted a dozen at one point.

There was a time of worship at 7PM. Sunday was a beautiful day. Sounds like we will get some more much needed rain Monday afternoon.

Decks day two

The work continues on assembling the two decks

 The wire is to contain the fiberglass insulation under the floor

Randy  was working on the bench seats and had top make a little more intricate cut

 Her he inserts that piece as part of the deck seat. The seats are made of trek which needs more support than lumber. No splinters with this product.

 Turning rectangular plywood into a round Yurt platform.

 Making the seats over Randy's support system.

These pictures were as of 3:30 PM Posting at 4:30 so it already looks different. They work work some tomorrow. Trek is being laid down for the deck as I write.

Build a deck

So the framers and lumber rolled in this morning.

 It wasn't long before they were filling the holes with wood and concrete

 It started to look like a deck pretty fast. OK two decks

 These pictures were taken about 5:30 PM and they were still working. I think there were twelve  of them. Hard to count.

Framers are coming, lets auger some holes March 1 and 2

Eric came down to help get the tractor back up and running. That went well. It  was a rain off and on sort of Saturday. About 3 in the afternoon we started drilling.

 We had tarps down trying to protect the 10 hole we did the weekend before. Our neighbor Danny came over to join the adventure. When the auger quit cutting we would move to the next location and try to fracture the bottom of the hole with the digging bar.

We had to do this on maybe 8 holes. They would glaze over and the 12" auger would stop cutting.

We plugged away and got 25 holes drilled, which was one Yurt decks worth. Had fun as well. Somehow I did not get pictures of Greg and Steve helping on Sunday. We drilled 25 holes and the second pad was ready for the framers.

New Bunk Beds for the second Yurt

Greg wanted to make some bunk beds. So over the last few months he would work in his garage and do one at a time. They evolved as well.

 So we transported them to the camp, one at a time. February 17th Steve and Greg came down and started assembling them. While the pictures show Greg working Steve did a lot of the assemble as well.

 The next day we put Min Wax on all four bunks. The lattice is golden pecan as are the new beds. We can now sleep 16 in the 2 yurts.