Happy Spring all! 

 

We were excited to have a new neighbor move in down the road who is a published wildlife and nature photographer. Look for a night sky photography workshop weekend, hopefully in July, for those who want to try to get some good shots of the Milky Way.

 

Meanwhile, two things coming up this month to help move the Modoc project along… First, we will be reclaiming some lumber this coming Saturday, right here in the bay area. It used to be part of the catwalk system PG&E set up to maintain electrical towers along the edge of the bay. Now they use helicopters to access those towers and the old catwalk is in disrepair, but we confirmed that the lumber is still in good shape and we’ve arranged with the City to pull out a trailer full of boards this Saturday, May 15, at 9am. We will repurpose them to build a walk-and-roll-way at the property so that guests can safely get down to the creek area whether on foot, walker or wheelchair. If you have a couple of hours and a little muscle to lend, we would really appreciate your help!

 

Second, we are having a Builder’s Weekend up at the property on Memorial Day weekend… we’ll either be siding, framing or doing stone work. (Framing is our first choice, but we just saw our framing package the other day and, well... as you can see in the photo it's not quite ready for us yet.)

If you are looking for a relaxing and covid-safe adventure for Memorial Day weekend, come on up for a visit. You can help build things as much or as little as you want. Given the crazy stress of some people’s jobs these days, you might also just want to eat, sleep and stare at the mountain, and that’s OK too.

 

Patti