David - I would have stayed, but I was on-schedule to take another van back to San Antonio. I think you're also part of the group doing the next run at 6:30p. -WaV
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote: > A small group of very hard-working people led by Rune Burnet cleaned > the libary after ICS. > > His team included Susan Souby, Rene Sheilds, Gary Napper, Orion Knox, > and Don Cooper. > > Others, including myself, chipped in. Kim Flieshman ? Dave Lester. > > The labor involved disassembling a giant wall made out of 2x4's and about > 40 heavy sheets of 4x8 OSB board. > > All of this had to be hand-carried out to Burnet's trailer, because the > libary > did not have a loading dock. > > Eventually, enough volunteers showed up, but then we didn't have enough > cordless drills to work efficiently. > > Meanwhile, Jim Kennedy worked to try to organize the maps and medals > for the cavers to collect. After several hours of doing that solo, he > eventually packed up and left. > > Also, in the background, the Shrewsbury's were packing up the artwork > for the art salon. The UPS office was closed, so it was decided > to entrust about $ 1 million dollars worth of artwork to me, and to put > in my van in hopes that I would drop it off at a UPS store. ( I will post > a story about that later. ) > > After loading all the heavy wood on the trailer, a Colorado caver showed up > to buy it for the 2011 convention, so some of it had to be off-loaded onto > his truck. It would have been convenient if he could have come by an > hour > sooner. > > Afterwards, only 4 cavers stayed to clean the libary: > > Orion Knox, Rene Shields and Susan Souby and myself. > > I walked the library and could not find anything else that could be done > without the instruction of the campus personnel. > > The facility, in my opinion, is ready to open back up to public visitors. > There are quite a few wood shavings in the carpet that the janitor will > have fun vacuuming up. I am sure the librarian will have to re-arrange > the > furniture. But I don't see how they can complain about how cavers > left their library. > > About 4 cavers are still using the internet, but other than that the > building > is empty. > > There is a box of art supplies ( Karen Veni ?? or Conrad Schriener ?? ) > sitting on the back porch along with a tire to an offroad vehicle. > > David Locklear > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > >
