October 10 - WORK BEE at Campgrounds ( 3358 32nd St Hopkins, MI 49328 ) See CAMPGROUND, Work Bee, in menu, for things you are willing to do.

Work Bee October Ideas for October 2026

Completed - Straighten Sewer line to eliminate low spot in pipe.

  • Move dirt back onto the roads from piles where the snowplow pushes the dirt & snow in the winter.

  • Repaint other out-houses! Paint is “Deck Correct” in the water closet by the water heater. Some paint rollers & brushes are there

  • Repaint the inside of the out-houses white! Paint is in the water closet by the water heater.

  • Replace front gate support post with a railroad tie or power-pole

  • Completed - Repainting the numbers on the site posts with bright yellow from the marking paint in the shed

  • Completed - Cut, Split the wood by the pole-barn into 18 inch pieces & put newly cut or spilt wood onto wood kiosks & wood bunker by building.

  • Cut, the falling wood in the woods along the roads  & near the pond into 18 inch pieces. Put on trailer if possible for transport

  • Cut, the fallen trees near the building into 18 inch and split, then put in woodshed

  • Completed - Cut the wood in the pole-barn into 18 inch pieces and then split as needed

  • Completed - Removed everything from Pole-barn, clean, restock wood on pallets, &organize equiptment

  • Put up NO-trespassing signs on west side of property?

  • String old power wire coiled by garage thru the trees on the east side of the lower parking lot road about 4 foot off the ground to slow down would be thieves

  • String old power wire coiled by garage thru the trees on the west side of the property

  • Regrade and widen roads along the north side of property,

  • Take inventory of the stuff in and on top of the cabinets in the garage,

  • Power Wash the Building

  • Progress being made - Cut back the briers along the roads & pick up sticks along the roads and in the fields  

  • Burn the pile of disassembled wood sheds

  • Completed - Put the 3-point drag plow into Pole-barn

  • Put woodpecker proof Gables on both ends of the Bunkhouse.

  • Progress being made - Joe & Harold are working on the lights of canoe trailer that is out   

  • On going:

    • pick up sticks along the roads and in the fields    

    • Trim with Weed-Wacker around Shed, all the Outhouses, trail going down to Miller Creek, Obstacle Course, along the road where briers are encroaching, campsites, & behind pole-barn

    • Trim the branches encroaching on the roads going around the Campgrounds especially on the north road to the east of the outhouse