More Happening

Lots has been happening the past week at Iona House.

We rented a compact track loader (skid steer) with a forestry grapple and went to town cleaning up old burn piles, cleaning up rough terrain, cutting new trails, and removing poison oak. It’s a great machine! This is exactly the kind of machine we want to purchase when funding comes together for it. It’s like a swiss army knife.

We took delivery of approx. 80 yards (four massive dump truck loads) of wood chips that we will put in the parking area to keep dust down. Many thanks to the good folks at El Dorado Truss who donated them to us!!!

We had a group of four amazing volunteers come out on Saturday along with 7 chainsaws (!!!). We removed some trees that needed removing and chopped up a bunch of wood which they hauled away as fire wood. It was a great afternoon.

Finally, we began cleaning up an area that will add more to our upper pond. It was a large depression in the earth leftover from 1800’s era hydro-mining (looking for gold). It was full of trees, brush, and debris.

With every passing day, there is good progress! Praise be to God.

Come visit! Looks like we’re having wonderful cool weather this coming Saturday and a Community Day is coming together. It will be a great day to come out. Email me if you want to join us.