Hot and Tired Day

Outside: We have been tired every day since we came here, but today it got up to 100 degrees and we had lots of work to do, so it was Hot and Tired Day.

This site was originally a farm homestead which became a park and campground and eventually an RV park with seasonal campers. It got pretty run down over the years so it is now our job to resurrect it and make it nice again. Some days it feels like we might be washed away in a sea of garbage and poison ivy and raccoons and feral kittens. We are fighting the good fight, though, and soon we should start to see some real signs of progress. The goal is to do away with seasonal camping and turn the place into a large-group event site geared especially towards historical re-enactment (think WWII, Civil War, foam fighting, and live action role-playing). We have had one music festival here already and more are planned. There will be a commercial kitchen, nice cabins, a bed-and-breakfast, stables, and lots of other exciting things. That being said, we are still on serious clean-up duty.

The archaeological dig continues. Rob and Ken believed they had found the old cabin foundation but it turned out to be a solitary flat piece of limestone. Here are Rob, Beth, and Ken working hard. Most of the items they have found are nails and an old piece of pottery as pictured above.

On Sunday the furthest east entrance to the park was removed due to some safety concerns. Here is Ryan C. running the back hoe, pulling out the culvert that ran under the entrance, grading the culvert, and getting the excess soil moved out of the area, with my husband Ryan A. looking on and giving direction.

Last but not least, here is a picture of our humble abode. It is hard to take a picture of the Stonehouse itself from the outside because there are too many big trees in the way, but we will keep working on it and have a good picture to post soon.