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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Doug Copley <<a href="mailto:doug.copley@gmail.com">doug.copley@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Ansteorra-announce] GW Tower Improvement Project - Was Great!</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">December 19, 2012 1:05:02 PM CST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:ansteorra-announce2@lists.ansteorra.org">ansteorra-announce2@lists.ansteorra.org</a><br></span></div><br><div>First off, I would like to thank TRMs for allowing me the opportunity to<br>head up this project.<br><br>This project had the support and help from many many people across the<br>entire Kingdom of Ansteorra. People helping with fund raising, donating<br>money, helping to organize, and going there to work on it.<br><br>HRM Gilyan raised money for the removal of stumps. We were able to have<br>every stump and every dead tree from all of the Ansteorran lands removed<br>that we could find. There were some areas that were overgrown with grass<br>and weeds so there could still be a couple of<br>stumps that we missed. There were 129 stumps plus 6 dead trees for a total<br>of 135 removals.<br><br>HE Caterina and Lady Margherita took on the job of fundraising and were<br>able to raise the $2,000 to allow us to make the trip to repair the towers.<br><br>We had a total of 10 people that made the trek to work on the towers:<br>Baroness Giovanna Lena Caronna, Baron Pasquale Pace, Duke Hrafn Olafsson,<br>HL Sven Randalsson, Lord Felemid Macphail, Lord Isaac Masters, Lord Asric<br>Der Liebenkunstler, HL Charles the Grey of Mooneschadowe, and Lord William<br>Lindsay.<br><br>Every person not only worked on an area but did not hesitate to lend a hand<br>to move stuff, cut boards, pick up things, or anything else that needed to<br>be done. This was a great crew and it was my honor and privilege to be<br>associated with and working with them.<br><br>Some of the things that were done included:<br>• Locks on the gates and towers were cut off and replaced with brass<br>combination locks.<br><br>• Gates were treated with water seal and rusty areas on the metal were<br>brushed with wire brush and painted. Gate hinges were greased. Trees, weeds<br>and grass were cleaned up.<br><br>• Towers each had extensive work done on them. The tower roofs themselves<br>could not be worked on until the towers themselves were repaired some. The<br>towers were in such bad shape we could not rip out all of the bad stuff and<br>put in new stuff because the towers would have fallen. So we had to do it<br>in stages and go area by area. The roofs were braced underneath and pushed<br>back up level, then cleaned up and covered over with a new layer of treated<br>plywood. This was then covered with roofing felt, rolled out asphalt<br>shingle, nailed down, and liberally sealed up with roofing tar.<br><br>• All stumps were removed and holes filled in.<br><br>I am happy to be associated with all of the great people that do so much in<br>this Awesome Kingdom of Ansteorra that we get to call home.<br><br>YIS,<br><br>HL Vincenti da Murano<br>GW XXII Land Coordinator for Ansteorra<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ansteorra-Announce mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ansteorra-Announce@ansteorra.org">Ansteorra-Announce@ansteorra.org</a><br>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-announce2-ansteorra.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>