From the Keeper’s Desk – June 25

Greetings!

It was a very eventful day at EBLS.

By the time I arrived at 9:30 this morning the Park folks cut the grass. They helped Mike and Billy move the rest of the siding that was on the grass west of the barn to the fenced area at the summer kitchen. That enabled them to cut grass in what we used as our painting area to be cut. It really looks good now. Thanks to the Park folks.

Josh and Deion spent the day putting mortar back in the oil house joints where they previously ground out bad mortar. The oil house is looking fantastic.

The crew from Mike’s Watertite Seamless Gutters was back to reinstall the gutters that had to be taken down when the roofers installed the metal roof. They used brackets that were installed on the fascia board to support the gutters. They also installed the downspouts.

Mike and Billy finished installing the last of the shingles on the barn. The barn is looking very historical.

Ed

Thank you to the Park for cutting the grass

Deion and Josh tuckpointing on the oil house

Mike and Billy installing shingles on the barn

Making the scaffolding higher

Making the plank higher

Installing cedar shake breather material

The gutter guy installing support brackets for the copper gutters

Carrying a gutter section to the barn

Deion placing mortar and Josh cleaning mortar off bricks

Billy installing shingles and the gutter guys reinstalling the gutter on the west side of the barn

Installing elbows for the downspout

Billy is getting closer to the top

Mike prepping the threshold installation on the summer kitchen

Special Ed had the lighthouse trolley tour today. He says two Eds are better than one!

Working on the downspout

what gutter brackets look like

Full house on the scaffold!

Kathy and Sydney holding down the fort in the lighthouse

Section of gutter going up

Gutter section p laced in its brackets

No more shingles on the pallet!

Mike and Billy with what was left of 20 bundles of shingles

Installing downspout elbows and securing gutter to the brackets

Deion and Josh still at work on the oil house

West side of barn with gutters

Close up

Downspouts on the back of the barn

Deion and Josh are still working!

View from the lighthouse

All shingles installed and gutters put back in place

The east side of the barn with all shingles and gutters

View from the end of the sidewalk