Mulching Day on August 14, 2014

When I got there, mulch was already delivered. The mound was steaming against the sun. Donnie, manager of North Park, and I took out buckets and shovels from the storage and started to work. Donnie brought a can of white paint and marked where mulch should be applied. One of the reasons for today’s mulching was to make some islands to bundle a few trees together so that the lawnmower doesn’t knock down the stakes and trees. Donnie also removed weathered “caution tape” from the stakes, improving the landscape.

Around 9 o’clock volunteers arrived. We worked with 2 wheelbarrows and 5 buckets and shovels. We worked hard, and the mulch mound was used up around 11, as expected. Reiko wanted to mulch the memorial tree near the boathouse, so we brought 5 buckets of mulch there. Barbara rushed over after a red eye flight, arriving too late for the mulch spreading. But there was another job:  she and others pulled and dug out the stakes where dead pines had been removed. They struggled with some stubborn stakes, but all looked very clean after the removal. Hard work prevailed. Thank you all!

Volunteers: Loren and son Alex, Fumie, Takuma, Ritsu, Takako

Board Members: Reiko, Atsumi, Barbara and Yoko