We held our 24th Toy Workshop (TWS) and final workshop for 2022 on Saturday November 19, 2022, from 9 to 11:30 am. This was held at the Wood Shop at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City. The shop is in the basement of the annex to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church. This is the last workshop for 2022, and all toys are now complete. This means that we have completed out 2022 Toy Marathon! Congratulations to all who participated and enjoyed this race!
The attendees at today's workshop (19) included John, Bob, Kathie, Mary G, Jerry, Patsy, Rick, Grant, Rollie, Lon, Norma, Ken, Al, Gary G, Kevin, Julian, Darwin, Lauree and Don.
Here was the plan for the day:
- Finish building Basketball Games (64): (1). Add ball/strings to basketball games. (2). Attach 2 spoons to each Basketball game with Rubber bands. (3). Pack and Inventory Basketball games
- Install Wheels on 21 - 1969 Volkswagen toys
- Put Felt in one last jewelry box
- Pack and Inventory Large Cradles (26).
- Pack and Inventory Rocking Chairs (40).
- Pack and Inventory rectangular Jewelry Boxes
- Pack and Inventory 1969 Volkswagons (21).
- Pack and Inventory some miscellaneous toys with wheels.
- Trace at least 200 Love Bugs for 2023.
- Prepare the shop for Toy Packing/Distribution Day coming up on Dec 3, 2022.
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Lon milled some wood from about ten pallets this past week and brought it in to the Wood Shop today. Some of it will be used for critters and some will be used for wheeled toys.
The wheel guys put wheels on some 1969 Volkswagen bugs today. (The last wheel installs for 2022!). Today's crew was John, Julian, and Don.
Then the wheel guys were joined by the Hand Sanders who picked up pencils and awls and traced out more than 200 Love Bugs using 2" wood brought in by Lon today and other 2" wood brought in by Paul Douglas a couple of weeks ago.
Keith Brink visited the Workshop today. Keith joined our group this spring and has been working on toys from his home shop. Keith returned a large box of Love Bugs needing their final protective spray coat. We gave him a tour of the shop and discussed more techniques of toy making. He was asking for Home Work, so we gave him a few assignments. After tracing the Love Bugs, we boxed about half of them up and loaded them into Keith's van for working on in his shop. We also loaded him up with poplar cutoffs. We are working on several toy patterns to use for 2023, so we gave Keith a new pattern to use to make a gaggle of new toys.
The Basketball crew finished putting strings in 68 games, and attached two spoons to each of the games. Lauree and Rick packed them in boxes and moved them to inventory.
Lauree packed up the rocking chairs, the larger cradles, the Volkswagens, and a few miscellaneous ICU survivors, and moved them to inventory.
Wheel Crew / Tracers
New design
Keith and Al
Jerry and his new designs
Kitchen chair repairs
Stats for Today:
Summary for today:
Stats: Toys to inventory today: 211 total toys
Toys in inventory to date: 3,124 (new) + 520 (leftover) = 3,644
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At the end of the workshop, we set the stage for the next event: the culmination of 24 Toy Workshops: the Toy Packing / Toy Distribution Day.
We cleaned the shop, set up more tables, prepared the carts, and did a walk thru type dress rehearsal for the big day!
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