FOS July 12, 2014 Group Work Day

Saturday July 12th dawned hot and muggy and went up from there but a dozen intrepid FOS volunteers were getting organized by 8am for a morning of painting, mowing, trimming  and camp cleanup.

FOS Volunteers are shown with the new Yo-Ho loppers and rakes provided by a grant from Yo-Ho for our use in maintaining the campground and trails at Shimek.



 Bob and Howard and the new Yo-Ho loppers make
short work of low hanging limbs.



Bob and Marsha take two DR walk-behind mowers along a trail
 where the briars and weeds were closing in.  Along these rough areas and
at 89 degrees these are more struggle-behind-mowers than walk-behind.

Neal uses the Yo-Ho loppers with extending handles to trim
 low hanging limbs in the lower campground.  Nice!

 

Work day coordinator Ann Bennett and crew prepare to paint.

Pam and Bill check that this walk-behind string trimmer is ready to go --
and off down the trails they went with it to trim back weeds and briars.

Linda wins the endurance award for the day -- she painted the inside of the men's facility at the lower campground.  Both lower camp restrooms were fully painted inside and out as they had last been painted in 2011..  The upper facilities were painted as needed, including the doors and any areas where paint was wearing thin.
 

 Neal installed little reminder posters on the posts of shelters 1 and 2 to ask campers to help us keep the stalls clean.  Bonnie will soon stencil "Please Clean Your Stall" on the back wall of each stall.  Keeping the stalls clean helps reduce the likelihood of transmission of diseases and parasites from horses to horse---plus makes the campground cleaner and healthier for all of us---no breeding of flies and other insects in the stalls if they are kept cleaned by users.

Debbie sorts out cans and bottles collected around camp, especially out of firepits.  Please--fellow campers---firepits are not trash containers nor recycle bins--only wood and paper should be burned in the firepits.   There are can recycle bins at each campground and trash receptacles for plastics and other trash.

 Happy horses in clean stalls in shelter 1 during the work day.  Enjoy!  FOS