SQUADRON DATE 072810 It was so hot and humid today that I can not blame anyone for not coming to our Ballbuster Work Party today. No wind and lots of humidity and heat. The body drips sweat and it doesn’t evaporate. Our painters, Ruth & Chuck Nordman, finished the chair rail back of the office and kitchen and then scraped off the peeling paint from one of our picnic tables for painting later. Ron & Don cut out and built two more garbage can covers for the ladies room and checked on the level of a table on the main dock. Bob Haynes used his blower (we can’t find the Squadron’s) to blow off the Pavilion and straightened all chairs and tables while Dan Robinson dug and cut out Brazilian Peppers and Australian Pines along the northwest side of the point. Jaye Villain and Alan Titcombe worked on laying our a shed extension of the Power House for the storage of a lawn mower, wheeled weed eater and some other lawn equipment while I (as the boat hook that we used to turn on and off Pavilion lighting had taken a hike) got a newer one from the office and attached it to a brass chain so (I hope) it can’t be removed again. I also worked on a list of deceased members for metal plaques to be attached to Annie’s lamp (a sawed off part of a mast from a Great Lakes Schooner) that stands in the clubhouse next to the couches.
SQUADRON DATE 080410 Another hot summer day with several jobs continuing. Ruth & Chuck Nordman continued sanding and painting picnic tables at the Pavilion while Ron & Don exchanged white chairs from the Main Dock Deck with new tan plastic chairs as the new ones had much larger feet and consequently won’t get caught in the cracks between the deck boards like the others and break or cause whoever is sitting in it to fall down. They also began re-screening the top part of the Stone House screen doors. Jaye Villain and Alan Titcombe continued building the frame work for a new shed at the Power House for the storage of mowers and weed eaters. Nelson and new member Vinnie Algozino spent the morning knocking rust off the metal supports that surround the hoist to get it ready for painting with a 2 part epoxy. I picked up junk on the point this side of the hoist and drove around the storage area and picked up some more, boards, concrete blocks, and a trailer axel. On the way home I took a list of plaques of departed members (15) to the Trophy Shoppe for Annie’s Lamp and two office chair canvas seats to Knighton Sails so they could build replacements.
SQUADRON DATE 081110 A rainy day with few Ballbuster’s showing up. However, Ron & Don were here and helped Wanda with stocking the bar while Jaye Villain came to finish roofing the small yard equipment shed but his helper, Alan Titcombe didn’t show and it rained cats & dogs so Jaye couldn’t set up his equipment so it will have to wait until next time. Jaye along with Walter Wyatt, Ron Birney and I moved a small picnic table to the main dock deck and a large one to back of the clubhouse where they used to be. Jaye carried one end of the table by himself while two of us or three handled the other. Jaye and I moved tables and chairs back to where they were before last nights Board Meeting. Ruth & Chuck Nordman sanded and painted the aluminum of the Stone House bathroom screen doors bronze. I changed out several lights behind the bar and several on the porch until I had to leave for an Eye Doctor appointment on Tuttle Ave. Ron finished the lights I didn’t have time for.
SQUADRON DATE 081810 All the rain fell yesterday, so we started with a cool breeze from the southeast and finished with lots of unbearable heat. However, Ron & Don helped Wanda stock the bar, Ruth & Chuck Nordman completely cleaned the BBQ grill. Fortunately three younger members showed up and mowed various parts of our ever growing grass with Bob Mendoza and Ed Fisch concentrating on the entrance way and area around the power house where Jaye Villain and Alan Titcombe roofed the new mower shed with plywood and then finished it off with tar paper. Chris Ranney mowed the areas surrounding the clubhouse and BBQ pit. I, in preparation for the Labor Day Regatta, put the box of piling caps on the north porch in a storage area in the Work Area and then put pistol grips on several hoses in the YSP areas. Rob Barnette moved some more rocks out of the area west of the five floating docks so we can store more dinghies.
SQUADRON DATE 072810 It was so hot and humid today that I can not blame anyone for not coming to our Ballbuster Work Party today. No wind and lots of humidity and heat. The body drips sweat and it doesn’t evaporate. Our painters, Ruth & Chuck Nordman, finished the chair rail back of the office and kitchen and then scraped off the peeling paint from one of our picnic tables for painting later. Ron & Don cut out and built two more garbage can covers for the ladies room and checked on the level of a table on the main dock. Bob Haynes used his blower (we can’t find the Squadron’s) to blow off the Pavilion and straightened all chairs and tables while Dan Robinson dug and cut out Brazilian Peppers and Australian Pines along the northwest side of the point. Jaye Villain and Alan Titcombe worked on laying our a shed extension of the Power House for the storage of a lawn mower, wheeled weed eater and some other lawn equipment while I (as the boat hook that we used to turn on and off Pavilion lighting had taken a hike) got a newer one from the office and attached it to a brass chain so (I hope) it can’t be removed again. I also worked on a list of deceased members for metal plaques to be attached to Annie’s lamp (a sawed off part of a mast from a Great Lakes Schooner) that stands in the clubhouse next to the couches.
SQUADRON DATE 080410 Another hot summer day with several jobs continuing. Ruth & Chuck Nordman continued sanding and painting picnic tables at the Pavilion while Ron & Don exchanged white chairs from the Main Dock Deck with new tan plastic chairs as the new ones had much larger feet and consequently won’t get caught in the cracks between the deck boards like the others and break or cause whoever is sitting in it to fall down. They also began re-screening the top part of the Stone House screen doors. Jaye Villain and Alan Titcombe continued building the frame work for a new shed at the Power House for the storage of mowers and weed eaters. Nelson and new member Vinnie Algozino spent the morning knocking rust off the metal supports that surround the hoist to get it ready for painting with a 2 part epoxy. I picked up junk on the point this side of the hoist and drove around the storage area and picked up some more, boards, concrete blocks, and a trailer axel. On the way home I took a list of plaques of departed members (15) to the Trophy Shoppe for Annie’s Lamp and two office chair canvas seats to Knighton Sails so they could build replacements.
SQUADRON DATE 081110 A rainy day with few Ballbuster’s showing up. However, Ron & Don were here and helped Wanda with stocking the bar while Jaye Villain came to finish roofing the small yard equipment shed but his helper, Alan Titcombe didn’t show and it rained cats & dogs so Jaye couldn’t set up his equipment so it will have to wait until next time. Jaye along with Walter Wyatt, Ron Birney and I moved a small picnic table to the main dock deck and a large one to back of the clubhouse where they used to be. Jaye carried one end of the table by himself while two of us or three handled the other. Jaye and I moved tables and chairs back to where they were before last nights Board Meeting. Ruth & Chuck Nordman sanded and painted the aluminum of the Stone House bathroom screen doors bronze. I changed out several lights behind the bar and several on the porch until I had to leave for an Eye Doctor appointment on Tuttle Ave. Ron finished the lights I didn’t have time for.
SQUADRON DATE 081810 All the rain fell yesterday, so we started with a cool breeze from the southeast and finished with lots of unbearable heat. However, Ron & Don helped Wanda stock the bar, Ruth & Chuck Nordman completely cleaned the BBQ grill. Fortunately three younger members showed up and mowed various parts of our ever growing grass with Bob Mendoza and Ed Fisch concentrating on the entrance way and area around the power house where Jaye Villain and Alan Titcombe roofed the new mower shed with plywood and then finished it off with tar paper. Chris Ranney mowed the areas surrounding the clubhouse and BBQ pit. I, in preparation for the Labor Day Regatta, put the box of piling caps on the north porch in a storage area in the Work Area and then put pistol grips on several hoses in the YSP areas. Rob Barnette moved some more rocks out of the area west of the five floating docks so we can store more dinghies.
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