July 11

Today Ginger left for town. She is running a few errands and then will be going to visit a friend’s place on another part of Kodiak Island. After helping her load up the skiff, Kristy, Jordan, Bentley and I walked the waterline to check the screens at the beginning of the water system. The start of the system is a half culvert in the creek which diverts water to two large metal tanks. Black pipe takes the water from these tanks down to camp where it passes through jets to charge a series of batteries. On top of these tanks are screens to keep debris out of the piping. This must be cleaned regularly to keep the water system running smoothly. 

Hydro power system.

Following this task, I cleaned up the kitchen to prepare for making kimchi. Kristy went up to the hoop houses to do some gardening and then camp up to the house and offered to make the kimchi. I was more than happy to oblige since I had had enough of the kitchen yesterday.  

Since I was freed of kitchen duty, I went to fix the guard rail on the zip line and the pull-up bar in our workout area. This was just a matter of finding the right sized lug nuts and drill attachment to drill them in. I had never done this before, so it was a good experience. 

In the evening I removed some rails from the banya porch because they had rotted and needed to be replaced. After this, I weeded the sitting area for awhile with Kristy. Today wasn’t the most fun of days, but sometimes the work out here just has to be done. I’m looking forward to some building projects tomorrow!