Welcome to the Meany Work Party Page

if you have been wondering what it takes to keep Meany going, well come to one of the fall Work Parties in the fall and see what it takes. The cost to you -- is absolutely nothing -- well some work would is required.

We offer weekend workparties, and for the person with a lot of time on there hands, mid-week work ones, just select the ones you are interested and come visit.

Midweek work parties will be held on Aug 12-14, Sept 16-18, Oct 21-22 and Nov 18-20. They are coordinated by our own Ray Nelson, if you wish to attend any of them please give him a call at (425) 889-9041 and tell him you read about it on the website!

The weekend work parties will be held on Sept. 6-7, 27-28, Oct. 4-5, 18-19 and Nov. 1-2. If you want to attend any of these simply click on fall work parties, pick the weekend and sign up.

Sept 6th - 7th work Party

We had a crew of 12 show up and began to tackle the chores required to get the lodge ready for winter. One of the tasks was to see what the damage was with all the snow from last winter. As you can see psycopath took a beating. The first picture shows Brian in foreground and Chuck in background showing that the entire safety fence is going to need to be fixed. The second picture has Emilio, Chuck and Brian posing with the type of trees that had fallen and need to be removed. The third picture with Emilio in foreground and Brian in background shows how high (and thick) the brush has gotten. High enough that a major bushwacking will be required. If these three task don't get don't get done, psycopath most likely will be closed for the winter. The fourth and final one shows operator shed. With all the snow weight, it start to lean, the fossils righted it and installed tension wires on the supports to prevent it from happening again.

     


The pictures below show the ox in desperate need of new brakes and tires, Brian doing the Herculean jobs of brush chipping, and a picture of our new cat, yep we got it. Chuck was so overjoyed that he decided to have a "Name the new snow cat contest". Rules and more pictures are on the New Snow Cat page, but the main rule To enter you need to be at a work party and hand deliver your entry to Chuck.

   


Not shown in pictures is Andy and his wife, along with Phil, cutting and bring trees for spliting. Christopher Marasco and Dave Claar marking trees not to be cut by power company. Ray, as usual, doing his finest in the kitchen. Alex power washing ox and new cat. And lastly, Shojin, Christopher and Juliana providing help to Phil and Emilio in splitting and stacking the firewood.

Oct 4th - 6th work Party

Several of us REALLY enjoyed Ray's Beef Weelington. Some said the peanut butter & anchovy pizza wasn't that bad either, Chuck claims he wouldn't know!! The brownies & ice cream dessert was pretty good too.

The women's dorm construction is pretty much wrapped up, thanks to Phil C & James K.
Deb C, Linda H & Jo E made great strides on the painting too, But they could use some help next work party.

Art F, Dan R, Elizabeth F, Jerry T, Andy S, Elena K, Dan N and Ken H, and probably a few others that Chuck didn't see, cleared a serious path off the side of South. We can't wait for snow to try this out.

Jim F with friend completed servicing the tows.

Yet to do:

We have ONLY 2 work parties left this season and tons of work to do.

Our next work party will feature FRESH apple cider. Phil is bringing up 100+ lbs of apples and Norm is bringing the press. What we don't drink at dinner we'll share with whoever want to take some home!! Bring your own jug.

Oct 18th - 19th work Party

Well, for such a light turn out, it was a very productive weekend.

And the fresh apple cider that Norm & crew made was GREAT, as was the new Greek chicken stew Ray made us for dinner.

For the next workparty, Nov 1/2, here's the Help Needed part:
we'll be swapping out the belts on the tracks of the new cat. This is a very labor intensive project. We'll be looking for a crew of 8-10 mechanically inclined folks to work this project.

Remember this is steak grilling weekend. One of the FEW TIMES we let the chair cook; If your not signed up, we still have Anchovy/Peanut Butter Pizza in the freezer for you.