Many thanks to everyone who showed up for the workday, tours, potluck, camping, etc. on Sunday 10/26! Seventeen people took part total over the course of the day, including two potential members on the tour. Paul and Anthony started the day with mowing, mower maintenance, and weed-whacking to get the main areas ready. When Stephen and Andrea and Donna arrived, we moved over to the newly-tilled wildflower field and started sowing (mix of the bee-forage wildflower mix and leftover clover seed from last year) while also carrying down the kayak and starting to plumb the pond. Stephen did a quick till to till in the seeds. Hope and Ann-Michelle arrived; we adjourned for lunch and then they headed off to work on HM admin on-line. Rachel and Matt arrived and went out on the water for more measurements. Johanna joined us and took on the fertilizing of the wildflower field using the seeder. Miriam arrived, and soon after her friends Marcela and Nico for a tour; then Peter, who joined Rachel and Matt and Johanna and Ann-Michelle and Anthony as we located and marked the next section of trail (from the Creek Connector Trail to the SW edge of the tobacco field). Amy arrived; it was potluck time; later Linda arrived with Lylah… more dinner, big fire, gradually folks peeling off as they needed to until Linda and Lylah and Anthony were left watching the stars and fanning the flames and eventually retreating to our tents to sleep through a night that got so cold that there were even a few patches of frost in the fields at dawn. Gorgeous sliver Moon at dusk, wonderful and welcome orange sun at dawn.
It was great to get the wildflower field done — great also to finally measure the depth of the pond (average depth is 4′, deepest about 6′: we have enough measurements for a decent topo when I get a moment) — and wonderful to blaze the route for a next big link of trail (trail-building will be much easier for this segment —it’s much more open country with many fewer brambles). Major accomplishments! Plus much good fellowship and many new faces!
