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.