A Big Thank You To All Our Members Who Showed Up For Our Grounds Clean Up Day!

 

It was a great day to work on the Fellowship grounds.  We cleaned gutters, racked leaves, divided and re-planted switch grass, racked pine needles and trimmed the branches of the 9 Sisters Pines, fluffed mulch, shoveled mulch and distributed mulch, weeded, composted the childrens' raised gardens, delivered yard waste to Western to be turned into compost, and much more.  A great time was had by all.

Participants:

Chris and Robyn Rathweg

Wendie Highsmith

Tom Briggs

Larry Arp

Paul Brynteson

Joan Mulcahy

Hans Jordan

Hiram Wolgemuth

T.K. Smith

Lucy Williams

Steve Nelson

Amanda Deringer-Downs

Kitty Kalebarn

David Burrous

 

Annual Spring Grounds Clean Up Day

Many Hands Make Light Work

Saturday, April 13, 2024

9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Come for an hour... come for three.

Kids are welcome.

• Gardening tools, if you have any.
• Rake, shovel, broom, clippers, bear claws, ladder, pruners, etc.
• Hat
• Sun block
• Gloves
• Water bottle
• Long sleeves

Check-in at the table on the west side of the Fellowship Hall.

We'll have a list of tasks at the check-in table and you choose the task(s) that you prefer.

For example:

• Check drip irrigation emitters under Larry Arp's most excellent guidance.
• Repairing/replacing broken emitters
• Weeding mulched areas next to building + parking lot islands
• Clean out gutters
• Rake pine needles under the 9 Sisters Pine Tree Alley
• Hauling tree limbs and pine needles to Western Disposal
• Inspect the pile of stuff on the west edge of property and decide if it is to be kept or disposed of. (old plastic playground parts, rubber mat,  etc.)  
• Mow grass as needed

• Paint or stain Free Library
• Fluff mulch
• imps out of established trees
• Sweep pine cones off sidewalks
• Any other tasks invented by the Grounds Teams:

From Larry Arp:  Jobs for April 13^th Grounds Day

• Pick up trash around parking lots and borders
• Fluff up Gorilla Mulch on parking lot islands and west entrance
• Remove extra irrigation emitters for trees and shrubs*
• Clean rain gutters and downspouts*
• Run new irrigation line for switch grass area by sanctuary*
• Subdivide and transplant switch grass by sanctuary*
• Move flagstone by wheelbarrow from south entrance to barn
• Pickup sticks and branches throughout
• Pull weeds at entrances, islands, and hell strip
• Level wood chips under swings in the playground
• Move much of the apple tree mulch to slopes around south parking lot*

*Larry will guide and assist 

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Third Annual Switch Grass Cutting

 Each year about this time, members of the BVUUF Grounds Team have to cut down the dead switch grass straw to encourage new growth.  This year's team was made up of Larry Arp, Hans Jordan, Paul Brynteson, Steve Nelson and David Burrous.

 

A short videoclip entitled:  

                BVUUF Plan to Complete the Landscaping

Click on the title above.

2023 Lawn Mowing Team

Lawn Mowing Team:

1.  Paul Brynteson and Steve Nelson = First Saturday of the month.

2.  Hiram Wolgemuth and Eric Williams = Second Saturday of the month.

3.  Marc Killinger and Cameron Weise = Third Saturday of the month.

4.  Hiram Wolgemuth, Hans Jordan = Fourth Saturday of the month.

Substitute = David Burrous

Grounds Clean Up Day - May 21, 2023

 A BIG thank you to the following members who turned out for our Grounds Clean Up Day.

We pulled weeds, mowed grass (Thank you Marilyn Leist for replacing the lawnmower that was stolen), fixed irrigation emitters, fluffed gorilla hair compost, removed dead grass from the berm, repaired a hole in the south parking lot, mended the prairie dog fence, etc.

• Jody Handerson
• Paul Brynteson
• Wendie Highsmith
• Janet Meyer
• David Burrous
• Larry Arp
• Joan Mulcahy
• Hans Jordan
• Mary Hill
• Chris Rathweg
• Robyn Rathweg
• Sara Kowalchuk
• Hiram Wolgemuth
• Steve Nelson
• Laura Patterson

Prairie dogs don't have a chance!

Thank you Marilyn Leist

That's a lot of weedsl

We missed you!  Join us next time.

We discovered a new interloper from the prairie dog colony to the south.

 Larry Arp discovered a new prairie dog hole on our southern property.  He dealt with it summarily!

No prairie dogs were harmed in the closing of this hole.  

They may be sorely inconvenienced, but they were not harmed.