A Month in a Little Village by the Sea

[SawyerTed]

We spent our first two days at Portsmouth this week catching up on cleaning buildings and doing repairs to the volunteer housing.  

It turns out the off grid solar/batteries/generator electrical system is not yet repaired.   So we went over yesterday and swept three buildings and serviced the restrooms.   In the afternoon we started scraping the inside of the volunteer housing in preparation for painting.  The inside is painted bead board paneling.  Much of it is peeling somewhat. 

This morning we went back to scraping.  Emily suggested that I install a new screen door so the bugs can't get in.  So I spent most of my morning doing that.  



The new screen door is installed.  Screen doors here require reinforcing or the weather and use break them apart.  It's not painted yet.  After the inside is painted, I'll be painting all the exterior trim.  



Here is the bedroom Emily has been scraping and preparing for caulk. LOTS of caulk.  



This is part of the kitchen partially scraped.  

Among this work, I spoke to 39 visitors yesterday and Emily spoke to 33 today.  We give a short historical timeline of the village and answer questions about the village then the visitors tour on their own.  

[GRANITEstateMP]

Ted,

You should put a paint scraper into the visitors hands as payment forgiving them a historical rundown!

[SawyerTed]

I've thought of Tom Sawyer many times the last two days.  

If each visitor scraped for 5 minutes that would be over 5 hours of scraping!  Then if I could just get $1 a minute!