"Today was a Good Day"
Steps to September 24, 2005 Relighting

Yesterday, July 5th, I met with Dave Burnett (our Landscaper) at noontime at Avery Point.  We measured and marked out the entire walkway with spray paint and then had Tony Weston check out and approve the layout.

Today, July 6th, Dave Burnett and the Burnett Landscaping crew arrived ready to go to work.  They placed their tool shed next to the inside corner of the greenhouse loading dock stairway.  They drove stakes into the ground and proceeded to remove the sod with a sod cutter.  The backhoe was waiting to dig in and remove the top soil, with the aid of the dump truck parked next to the greenhouse.  The place was alive, once again, with the sound of engines roaring and hammers hitting steel stakes.

The boom truck carrying the brick circle pallet, that we purchased from UBS, arrived shortly following the landscaping crew's arrival and the pallet of bricks was lowered to the ground with the large boom. Immediately, Dave's forklift picked it up and placed it next to where it will be installed (where all the walkway paths presently intersect) in front of the lighthouse tower.

The seven pallets of engraved bricks will be arriving today also and I have a call into the City of Groton to deliver two more loads of processed stone, last thing today or first thing in the morning, from Tilcon. I did take some pictures with both Jim's video camera and my digital SLR. It is very exciting to see the activity around the lighthouse tower again. The bricks, other than the circle kit which will go in this week, will start being installed next Thursday, as the 35 pallets of plain bricks are not due to arrive until the 13th.  I contacted the Master Chief at the Sub Base to inform him of this so the volunteers from the Base now they are not needed before the 14th.

Today was a "Good Day"