10/01/2011
The Big Work Party!
We had a good turnout today for the big work party. We had way too much food, a large pack of children running around helping, and we got a lot done.
- We finished w**ding the paths, and they're all covered with fresh bark.
- We finished w**ding the common areas (the front flower garden).
- We got a really good start clearing all the junk and trash out from behind the toolshed. We're going to see if we need to get a truck to haul a few things to the dump, and if so, a few of us can meet up later in the month for an hour or so to load it up. Jeremy is attempting to fashion an extra holding pen for some of the excess compost we have now, from wire fence we found behind the shed.
- We saw a hummingbird (probably a male Anna's Hummingbird) staking out territory, making quite a racket.
- We found a salamander (or some kind of reptile, anyway), which we named "Sandermander", after a certain hard-working helper.
- We were sorely tempted by donuts, but parent-imposed discipline went out the door when fresh chocolate cake showed up! (Thanks, Judith!)
- We discussed the idea of a potluck in the evening sometime, early enough that kids can attend, when we can get to know each other a little better (Judith will look into availability at the community center).
If you have ideas for additional improvements you'd like to see, please send them to Kenneth ([email protected]), post them here on the wall, or send to the bgpatch list ([email protected]), so we can discuss, ask for additional resources, etc. This can be something you think needs to be done, but you need able bodies to help out, a tool you think is missing from our collection, whatever. I'm happy to keep that list, and coordinate asking the main p-patch organization what's available, helping Toshi figure out what we need to do, etc.
It was a lot of fun - wish we'd remembered to take a group photo, but we got some action shots of our crack bark-spreading team, which will be posted.
