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| Paul Groulx and Jason Morris at work |
This year's sign workdays were as busy, noisy, and saw-dusty as ever. The group on Day 1 included about ten people, only one of whom hadn't been to the sign days before. We (staff) will take that as a good sign that volunteers keep coming back year after year! People got right to work sanding, planing, stenciling, rasping, routing and staining, and by the end of the first day we'd gotten about 40 signs done through the first coat of brown stain. Amazing! I swear this group gets better and better every year. For the first few years, Jason was the only one brave enough to route the signs, since free-hand routing does take some steady nerves... but this year we had 3 other volunteers routing at the same time as Jason, and I know there are others who want to try it next year.
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| Alan Cort routing a sign |
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| Day 1 at lunch |
The weather was less than beautiful to start Day 2 of the sign workshop, but the hive of activity continued undaunted. The number of signs completed this year, from smaller trail markers to large wooden property signs, was a little more than 70 total. Excellent job, and thank you to everyone who participated and loaned their power tools to the process as well. The only thing left now is to paint a whole lot of white lettering... if you've got a steady hand to lend for that in the next few weeks, please shoot me an email! We can set you up with some tunes and a brush and jar of paint anytime the office is open!
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| A little mid-work conference |
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| New steward Mike Casino (the only newbie on Day 1) got right down to business |
Seth and Gale are our stenciling experts
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| Hiel and Todd run Todd's planer |
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| Mike Carafiello routing away |
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| The ever cheerful Todd |
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| Beverly & Michael Bettencourt work on sanding |
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| Fred in the new work shirt! |
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| Jason and Mike collaborate on a unique triangular sign |
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| Beverly staining a new sign |
