The board approved the bench committee's suggested placement for new benches, and early this morning, the process began. Two solid concrete benches were placed on Pelican Point, replacing the aged spindley wood and metal benches of days gone by. If anyone asks, those old ones were trashed. They were rusted, rotten, and unfit for any further safe use by our residents.
Six brand new solid concrete benches were placed at Sunset Point this morning. A few new volunteers, Claude Pegdan and George Blanchette, added their support placing the wooden slats, while Ed Scobee and Richard Gauss muscled the 160 pound bench ends into position.
Etel Helbig and I refinished the scrapes and dings on the newly sanded/stained 2x4 slats.They
were perfect before they were stacked and moved about.
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| Removing an old bench |
Leonard Helbig and Mike Ross arrived to assist in the placement of benches five, six, seven and eight on the Point and closer to the pavilion. There were two crappy rusted pipe benches east and west of the pavillion that were totally removed and replaced today with these new concrete replacements. Some of the slats on these old benches literally fell apart when they were moved, the hardware was so corroded. The memorials plaques will be replaced soon.
One little item of interest of which every resident needs to be aware: when the bobcat was filled with 700-800 pounds of concrete, our diligent maintenance crew decided to fill the front tires with air. Richard noticed nesting very near the air spigot on the tire, a Black Widow spider. His diligence prevented a catastrophe, and perhaps even, the death of one of our employees. I was there, I saw the little sucker smashed under the foot of one of our volunteers. I did write an article in the Outlook about these spiders a year ago or so. Brown recluse spiders too. Be aware! They are here.
The Bedores donated the champagne for the workers to share. Thanks! Thanks to everyone who helped. Len, Tony, and Mike... you are Heroes! Thanks to Wes for cleaning the old plaques
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| Workers Celebrating |
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| Claude helping |
Six brand new solid concrete benches were placed at Sunset Point this morning. A few new volunteers, Claude Pegdan and George Blanchette, added their support placing the wooden slats, while Ed Scobee and Richard Gauss muscled the 160 pound bench ends into position. 
Etel Helbig and I refinished the scrapes and dings on the newly sanded/stained 2x4 slats.They were perfect before they were stacked and moved about.
One little item of interest of which every resident needs to be aware: when the bobcat was filled with 700-800 pounds of concrete, our diligent maintenance crew decided to fill the front tires with air. Richard noticed nesting very near the air spigot on the tire, a Black Widow spider. His diligence prevented a catastrophe, and perhaps even, the death of one of our employees. I was there, I saw the little sucker smashed under the foot of one of our volunteers. I did write an article in the Outlook about these spiders a year ago or so. Brown recluse spiders too. Be aware! They are here.
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