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Brower Work Day

Saturday, April 29, 2017, 10:00am — Brower Work Day
341 Route 126 (Jefferson Road), Whitefield, ME 04353
Sunday, April 30, 2017 — Rain Date

“Bereit ist besser als kann” is German for “Willing is better than can,” and is the closest approximation in the Roman alphabet to my grandfather’s favorite Yiddish saying. Your hands and willingness to work are essential to Work Day’s outcome, but your skills are not. Sure, we’re thrilled when some members arrive with truckloads of power tools and scaffolding, but even Your Illustrious President was able to wield a brush to paint some walls, and to fiddle with frozen roller bearings in the dome until they spun again. Please come help your club in the ongoing maintenance of your observatory.

Work to be completed includes:
• Re-shingling the roof.
• Sealing leaks in the fiberglass dome.
• Sealing the soffits against invasions of wasps.
• Replacing weak boards.
• Painting the floor and the outside walls.
• Installing a curtain of hardware cloth between the pier and the floor, to prevent birds (and their droppings) from taking up residence in the observatory.

A small army of CMASian tool-weilders could accomplish all that in a day. Bring your own lunch, but join the conversation if you may want to stay for dinner. If the weather allows, there may be a star party in the evening after workday. We could consider a simple, but hearty, communal dinner, to entice us all to work, and then to transition ourselves from the day’s labors into the night’s observing. If enough of us offer to help cook, or buy ingredients, or even set tables, we may add a dinner of pasta and salad to this event, or perhaps a star-be-cue.

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