Thwarted by the rain ...

As noted, we had scheduled another island visit to complete survey work on November 16, but we missed our short window of lower loch levels and are still waiting for another opportunity.  In the mean time, Tom Addyman has continued his work to record the tower structure and recently completed digitization of stone-by-stone drawings.   The EVPF Board covered in excess of $1700 for work performed in September (as a donation by the Board to EVPF) and authorized several thousand dollars of additional work.   Currently, two visits are pending scheduled dates.  The first is a visit for final definition of work required on masonry and stone work to preserve the tower itself.  The team there will be Tom Addyman and John Sanders.  David Connolly will be leading the second visit for survey work ... when water levels are low enough to properly record the outer walls.  Tom's trip isn't dependent on water levels and should happen in the next month or so.

We are working on Christmas ornaments.  The  Board is paying to have an iron made with the design shown above for use in the creation of ornaments.  We have an extremely limited supply of the wood from the Scots Elm that was removed from the doorway of the tower cellar in 2013, but we may try to produce additional ornaments from domestic wood.  We hope to spend time processing the stored Scots Elm wood during one of the future Scotland trips so that we will have more ornaments of that wood to offer for next year.

Happy Thanksgiving to those in the States!   Thanks to all for continued interest and support!

Bruce and Katherine