More Screens Today
Worked at replacing more screens today. We replaced 5 of them on one of the cabins at Trappers Outpost. The cabins are constructed of rough sawn lumber. The screens are a double layer. The inner layer is normal screen and the outer layer is hardware cloth (a stiff screen with larger openings). the screens are stapled to the building sheathing and rough sawn 2" material makes up the "frame." The sides, top and sill of the frame are held in place by 3" long screws. It was not all that difficult to get off the frame material but then we had to pull an average of 25 staples to get off the hardware cloth, before we could replace the damaged inner screen material. We (Joe, another volunteer, and I) did that before lunch. After lunch I (Joe took the afternoon off) made a couple of "spreaders" to strengthen the screen frames on the New Frontiers dining hall. I need to make a few more of them but ran out of time. After the spreaders I took a shower and headed over to the dining hall with Kathy to take meal tickets from the Family Camp people who pulled in this afternoon. We then went to an 8:00 concert. The band was so loud that I could hear them fine, AND I WAS WEARING EAR PLUGS!
I walk over to the Site Office in the AM and get a golf cart on the days I am running all over the campus. Today I came back to get some tin snips from my tools (it was easier than trying to find a pair in the Spring Hill shops). When I pulled up to the RV I noticed that we had neighbors on both sides (Family Campers). The people on the north side of us tore holes in the roof of their 5th wheel unit getting into the campground area. Kathy saw them coming into the area and said it appeared that they didn't have a clue as to what they were doing. Someone else eventually parked the unit for them. I took them over some "tarp tape" but the Spring Hill liaison person already had a 12'x20' tarp on the way for them to seal up the area temporarily. I don't know what they hit because their unit is not as tall as ours we are parked next to one another. It has rained heavily once while we have been here so I know our roof is still intact.
About one thousand kids left this morning and this afternoon 5-700 people came in for weekend Family Camp. They leave by noon Sunday and another 1,000 kids check in Sunday afternoon for regular camp. Normally the staff has Friday afternoon, all day Saturday and Sunday morning to "turn around" the cabins/housing. When there are weekend camps they call it "flipping the cabins/housing" because they have virtually no time to clean cabins between campers leaving and campers arriving.
Kathy painted the perimeter of the ceiling on the girls side of the Norway bath house this morning and then did some work at the office, before taking meal tickets with me. Tomorrow we take meal tickets at breakfast and then I finish paint the girls side ceiling, with a roller. She is going to see if the local farmers markets has any home grown tomatoes, it is only a mile from us. If nothing else comes up, she plans on coming up and painting the perimeter of the boys side so that I can roll it after I finish on the girls side.
Barb, the Volunteer Coordinator, gave us a pamphlet on a place called Bibleville (Bibleville@riogrande.edu). It is near Alamo, TX (between Brownsville and McAllen). It looks like it might be an interesting place to be volunteers for the winter months. My guess is that they probably have more people volunteering than they can use (snowbirds looking for a free place to park for the winter). I'm going to ask Barb and Joe (the guy I work for in "Accomodations") for a reference letter before contacting them to see if they have any interest in us.
Time to send this off and get to bed. We have to be at the dining hall before 7:30 so that we can be ready to start taking tickets at 7:30. Goodnight to all.
I walk over to the Site Office in the AM and get a golf cart on the days I am running all over the campus. Today I came back to get some tin snips from my tools (it was easier than trying to find a pair in the Spring Hill shops). When I pulled up to the RV I noticed that we had neighbors on both sides (Family Campers). The people on the north side of us tore holes in the roof of their 5th wheel unit getting into the campground area. Kathy saw them coming into the area and said it appeared that they didn't have a clue as to what they were doing. Someone else eventually parked the unit for them. I took them over some "tarp tape" but the Spring Hill liaison person already had a 12'x20' tarp on the way for them to seal up the area temporarily. I don't know what they hit because their unit is not as tall as ours we are parked next to one another. It has rained heavily once while we have been here so I know our roof is still intact.
About one thousand kids left this morning and this afternoon 5-700 people came in for weekend Family Camp. They leave by noon Sunday and another 1,000 kids check in Sunday afternoon for regular camp. Normally the staff has Friday afternoon, all day Saturday and Sunday morning to "turn around" the cabins/housing. When there are weekend camps they call it "flipping the cabins/housing" because they have virtually no time to clean cabins between campers leaving and campers arriving.
Kathy painted the perimeter of the ceiling on the girls side of the Norway bath house this morning and then did some work at the office, before taking meal tickets with me. Tomorrow we take meal tickets at breakfast and then I finish paint the girls side ceiling, with a roller. She is going to see if the local farmers markets has any home grown tomatoes, it is only a mile from us. If nothing else comes up, she plans on coming up and painting the perimeter of the boys side so that I can roll it after I finish on the girls side.
Barb, the Volunteer Coordinator, gave us a pamphlet on a place called Bibleville (Bibleville@riogrande.edu). It is near Alamo, TX (between Brownsville and McAllen). It looks like it might be an interesting place to be volunteers for the winter months. My guess is that they probably have more people volunteering than they can use (snowbirds looking for a free place to park for the winter). I'm going to ask Barb and Joe (the guy I work for in "Accomodations") for a reference letter before contacting them to see if they have any interest in us.
Time to send this off and get to bed. We have to be at the dining hall before 7:30 so that we can be ready to start taking tickets at 7:30. Goodnight to all.
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