Hawken Project Blog #4

 It has been a couple of days since I have last written a blog post but it has definitely not seemed like a lot of time. Every day working on the Hawken project has been extremely busy. David and I are accomplishing so much important work every single day. Over the past couple of days we have finalized all of our research for the kiosk and made a trip to Home Depot to buy wood and supplies. At Home Depot we bought a lot of quick-crete and the specific wood that we need. We hope to start digging the holes near the pond for the kiosk soon. Since my last blog post, all of our budget has been approved and we started ordering the equipment we need. We are currently awaiting most of the equipment to come from amazon and tractor supply, however Mr. Tate, David, and I went out to dicks sporting goods to purchase the reels we need for the club. We purchased about 18 Okuma spinning reels and 5 Okuma bait casters. David and I hope that these high quality years will be put to great use by future Hawken student who hope to enjoy some fishing. We also spent most of the previous day going through many of the donations that Mr. Biggar's was able to get for us. We had many rods donated from an outside fishing club so David and I spent a lot of time going through and sorting the junk rods from the quality ones. We are excited to say that most are very usable and will make great matches for the reels that we purchased. I have attached pictures below of these rod and reel outfits. It was a surprising amount of work to unbox and test everything to make sure it goes well together. David and I purchased reels for the different kinds of fish we are stocking in the pond (small, medium, and large reels) and we also paired them up with rods that correspond to the reels' size. 

David and I also spent a lot of time these past couple of days painting and renovating the room. Overall it looks great with a fresh coat of white paint. However, it did take a lot of time to get it to the way it looks now. Two coats of primer and then two coats of paint was a lot of tiresome work, yet, we were able to get it all done within a couple of days. The room definitely looks a lot better and actually matches the color of our reels!

















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