Construction Blog

Thanks to all the volunteers who came out to the second work weekend in spring 2010! We had a great time and got a lot of work done! The weather was fantastic (no snow, unlike last weekend!) Pictures are worth thousands of words so we’ll let them speak for themselves. [...]

The work weekends have begun! Spring work parties are a tradition at Camp Cherith, and now that we own a property we certainly have no shortage of work to do. We are so thankful to all the volunteers who share the workload! That being said… brr! Our first volunteer work [...]

Last spring was a huge push to have all of the “big stuff” built in time to run summer camp in July. We thank God that we were able to get so much done last year, both before and after camp. This spring we will be focusing our attention on [...]

On February 22, 2010 Daffy, Feecho and myself (Hawkeye) did a day trip to camp to make sure all was in order. Although we found many different kinds of animal tracks (deer, fox, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, dog/wolf?, snowmobile) there was no apperent sign of damage or trespassers. The strong wind [...]

OK, I admit, this blog entry is long overdue. As you can imagine, we got a little busy with many, many things as our 2009 summer camp weeks came up! So the last entry showed a site plan for what the campsite was shaping up to look like. So how [...]

Now that the cabins are built, it is starting to look much more like a summer camp! Kittiwake drew this little map, which shows the location of the cabins and other facilities we’ll have when we run camp during this first summer!

Good news! The tin roofs are on all 5 cabins on Maple Grove (the girls’ side). Some still need windows and railings on the stairs; but the doors are all in and the railings have been fixed on the decks. Here’s a picture of Black Bear and Stetson working on [...]

Thanks to everyone who came out to our official build week between May 1 to May 10! We took tons of photos, and Bunny prepared daily reports with photos that show how well the cabins are coming together! (See the earlier blog entries). Meanwhile, a small core group of us [...]

Recruits from Toronto arrived—halleluiah! Theo and Rob enjoy a hearty lunch before heading out to assemble the two pre-fabricated cabins they brought with them. Meanwhile George gives his buddy a hard time—maybe he wasn’t working fast enough? Black Bear is spying on Dragonfly—a hearty meal perhaps? Today was mostly spent [...]

Wow! Things are really moving along well. Cabin 1 now has 3 walls and a deck on. Cabin 2 has 4 walls and a deck. Cabin 3 has the very first door in place—it’s almost habitable! Justin is up on the roof nailing the last piece of tar onto the [...]