The first session at Tallac Historic Site at South Lake Tahoe finished up with a couple projects I was working on still unfinished. I’ve decided to stay on for a couple weeks…until June 30th or so to finish up.
Meanwhile, on June 14th, we had a session wrap party with a byob rule and USFS provided goodies like burgers and cake. Yummy.
Here’s a few pixs of some of the volunteers. No names are given unless they actually read this blog and request their names be included. These people are almost all volunteers with a couple FS personnel and interns thrown in:
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The following Friday, I moved from my space up at the admin site, with the full services it has there, down to the volunteers campground nearer to the site. This campground doesn’t have sewer (but does have everything else) so I’ll have to trot my black and grey water over to the dump once a week in the portable tank provided.
Here’s some shots of where I’m staying now, note where the satellite dish is there on the left and near the rear of the rig. I had to move it 3 times over the two days I spent trying to get it working:
Here’s a late afternoon shot of the campgrounds…nice and empty, I like the solitude:
Ahhh, peace and quiet, less blacktop, but no views. Note that the first turn into the CG is so sharp that I had to turn the rig around and back into the CG. I think I know how I could avoid that next time but on this first attempt it took me over 45 minutes to get where I’m parked:
The project I’m working on now involves the Pope Estate pond & fountain/waterfall. I’ll put up some pixs later, for now, surfice it to say that I’m getting the large pump that recirculates the water in the pond fixed. I’m no pond expert but I’ve found that the pump was put in with the wrong sized plumbing. So it leaks air and won’t self prime. That makes it unwieldy to set up and get running so every spring some volunteer has nothing but trouble with the system. I’ve already modified the inlet side of the pump to accept the plumbing that was initially spec’ed & installed when the system was first installed (they mated the right size of piping but the threads on the pump are NPT whereas the pipe nut used fine threads, not coarse like NPT [National Pipe Threads]). A pix would be better and I’ll get that later.