First Labyrinth Work Day – Saturday September 24, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

img_0655 The goal for this work phase will be to install the defining lines of the labyrinth circuits. The lines will be brick on a mortar base. The pattern will have been drawn on the ground before the work day begins. Additionally, the main garden spaces need to be defined and the pathways cleared.

1. Brick and Mortar installation:
• moving bricks from pallets to brick layers
• mixing and moving mortar where needed
• laying the brick and mortar (B&M)
• cleanup

If you are skilled at brick and mortar installation you will be a big help!

Tools that will be of use:
• trowels
• joint tools
• levels (12”, 18”, 24”, 48”),
• laser level
• hammer and chisel
• cutting tools
• rubber gloves for mortar work
• additional cement mixer.

Cement Mixer:
We intend to rent one from Home Depot. If someone can pick this up early on the morning of the 24th it will speed things along. A pick up truck may be necessary. We can coordinate the paper work before pickup so you wouldn’t have to bother with that.

2. Garden Space Development:
(less heavy but still demanding job)
• clearing the garden paths of mulch and distributing the mulch to garden beds
• cleaning up and disposing of unwanted debris
• weeding

Tools that will be of use:
• shovels both round spade and flat
• garden rakes
• large buckets
• mattock
• wheelbarrows
• pick up truck for hauling materials to dumpster or woods

Food and drink:
It would be wonderful to have cold drinks and lunch and snack food available to the workers. A portable shade structure would also be handy to cover refreshments and provide a place to retreat from the weather, if necessary. We will have a couple of tables and some chairs.

General Things:
• Friends and family welcome to help.
• Please let Mike Fabian know if you’re coming and talk with him about a possible job for you.
• Please park in the church parking lot.
• Please label any personal items, especially tools. It’s easy to lose them.
• For your own comfort don’t forget gloves, hats, bug spray, sun block.

If you would like to coordinate or contribute to this effort, please let Mike Fabian know.img_0654

You Are Invited To Join Us As We Build the Labyrinth

The beautiful deep red bricks have been ordered and on the date of Saturday September 24 (weather permitting)  we will all gather to help place the bricks in mortar to form the walls inside the labyrinth and on the perimeter. We will also be preparing the designated  paths leading to the labyrinth. The yellow, peach, light gray and white colored beach stone used on paths in the labyrinth and surrounding landscape will be brought into the site at a later date. Please mark your calendar and meet Mark Snyder, our professional artistic landscaper. Mark will direct the effort to where we are most needed. Please bring your own work gloves and share in the excitement. The time and any extra materials that may be needed will be posted at a later date.

Labyrinth construction begins!

In early August we reached 100% on our labyrinth fundraising project. We have roughed out the construction site and are currently in the process of selecting a supplier for the bricks and gravel needed to build our labyrinth. We will post more photos to document the construction as it happens.

beginnings

Nancy Herrington and Lois Case inside the construction site