Going Inside

November is treating us well.  The temperatures are cold in the morning, then nice weather most afternoons.  Except for about 2 days of hard rain.  That pushed us inside for a lot of this week, so me and Mike Baker worked on new trash can lids.  While camp is replacing the trash cans over the next years, we need lids for the old ones in the meantime.  After several designs we settled in and made 20 new lids to cover all the West side trash cans.  Mike Alchin seemed to enjoy spending some time in the carpenter shop too.  He was working on some plumbing for the West Side Bath House.

Mike Baker gets excited when we stop planning, and start cutting up wood.

Mike Alchin has a nice little work station.

A new project is starting to take shape in the East Side Dining Hall.  We're taking apart the walls around the freezer to try to shore up some moisture issues.  It turns out there is some condensation that has been soaking into the insulation.  So while most of the maintenance crew is taking some time off for the Fall Break (for Fairview schools) I'm plugging away on some of these walls trying to get some fresh air in there. Now it's a race to get everything back in working order for the retreats in January.

It looks really odd without the drywall.

So we keep working in the off season at camp.  This weekend I joined the Bakers family vacation at Avalanche Bay.  It's a water park that's part of the Boyne Mountain resort area.  I'm feeling like a wreck after a day of climbing the stairs up to the different slides.  Me and Matthew Baker hit one of them about 10 times in a row during a slow spell in the afternoon.  Lydia provided fantastic food for lunch.  It was a full day.  About 16 hours all told.

I feel like it's about half way through December.  That and the time change has kind of messed with my head.  But I'm cruising through work, enjoying this settled down November.  Now if we can just get wiped out under the snow next month.... we'll be all set for January.