From the Keeper’s Desk – June 27

Greetings!

Josh and Deion did an acid cleaning of the brick on the privy. Looking really good. They were doing more tuckpointing on the oil house. They finished whitewashing the basement wall in the smaller basement room. Then it was on to painting the inside of the privy. Cannot imagine the last time it was painted. It is looking bright and fresh.

Billy made a fake door for the hayloft to give the barn a historic touch. While Billy was doing that Mike was installing the doors for the summer kitchen. Later Mike and Billy took the scaffolding down that was around the barn. They finished off the day’s work installing framing trim around the summer kitchen doors and installing the azek starter siding at the bottom of the summer kitchen. Azek is a plastic type of board that can have ground and water contact and will not rot.

Chuck did some organizing in the lighthouse basement.

Ed

Josh rinsing the privy after acid cleaning the brick

Billy with the “hayloft door” he made

Billy installing shingles under the “hayloft door”

Mike shimming a door frame on the summer kitchen

Mike nailing the door frame after shimming it

Deion and Josh back to tuckpointing on the oil house

Billy and Mike taking down the scaffolding

Billy taking the scaffolding apart

Mike shimming a door frame on the summer kitchen

The oil house after mortar repairs

Mike laying down on the job? No, he is getting an accurate measurement

Deion and Josh scraping old paint off door frame of privy

Installing moisture barrier at bottom of summer kitchen

The barn without the scaffolding

The other side of the barn

Deion and Josh painting inside the privy

Aisha holding down the fort in the gift shop

Billy and Mike installing azek starter siding board on summer kitchen

Josh and Deion painting privy door frame

Door installed and framed on south side of summer kitchen

Door installed and framed on north side of summer kitchen

Chuck organizing up after Josh and Deion finished whitewashing the basement wall