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[Ashley] Come on, you gotta go.

[Paul] What we really would love to have

is a building living in this space

that will give our arts and crafts program a new home.

[Chase] From that large group of maples

over to that is what we need to clear out.

[Dixie] Here it goes. [Jedi] Here she goes.

[Chase] Get out of there. [Ryan] Run!

[Dixie] Compressors are frozen.

[grunts] Hoses are frozen.

Hi, guys.

[Chase] Welcome to your new arts and crafts building.

Thank you guys so much.

[Paul] Oh, and I love the sign.

- That is awesome. - [Ranae] Yeah.

[narrator] In a place called Vacationland...

Time to get to work.

[narrator] ...there are thousands of cabins

that have been unchanged for decades...

- Everything must go. - ...all over the great state of Maine.

Oh.

[narrator] Chase Morrill and his family of Mainers

renovate, restore, and save these historic structures.

Are we in the right place?

I'm Chase, and I lead the team.

Ashley's my sister, she's also the designer.

Ryan's my brother-in-law, he's my voice of reason.

Dixie and Jedi can handle any jobs we throw at them.

Nice.

Wow!

[Chase] Our crew is the best at what we do.

- Nice job on this one. - Cheers.

[Chase] We're all best friends, and we love it.

[Ryan] Walking the streets of Augusta again.

[Ashley] Beautiful capital.

[Chase] Back at the YMCA.

- [Ryan] We can do some repairs. - [laughter]

[Chase] No, no. The little cabin's in great condition.

But just wanted to swing by here, refresh your memory.

So, I reached out, and they've got

another fun community project

that they wanted our help with.

[Ashley] Oh. Here?

I figured we'd start here

and take a ride to the new site.

[Ashley] Is that our ride? [Chase] That's our ride.

[Ryan] No way. [Chase] Yeah.

So, the YMCA reached out to you again?

They did. They were so happy with our work

that they wanted to work with us again.

[Ashley] Well, that cabin was really awesome.

And really small.

- Look, we'll call it a model of what we're doing now. - Nice.

- [Chase] Get ready for Camp. - [laughter]

We are heading to Camp KV in Readfield on Maranacook Lake.

So, Camp KV serves Kennebec Valley,

a lot of Augusta.

They reached out and asked for our help.

[Ryan] What are we building out here?

[Chase] Our goal is to build an arts and crafts building.

Ashley and I used to take the bus to Camp KV.

It was a summer rec program.

It's still going on, it's still serving kids.

[Ryan] It'll be hard to top this, Chase.

We wouldn't be where we are today

without the time spent at Camp KV.

Is this bringing back memories, guys?

[Chase] It is. [Ashley] It is.

[Ashley] ♪ The other day ♪

[Chase] ♪ The other day ♪

[Ashley] ♪ I met a bear ♪

[Chase] ♪ I met a bear ♪

[Ashley and Chase] ♪ The other day I met a bear ♪

♪ Out in the woods away out there ♪

[Ashley] We're here. [Ryan] Whoo.

I'm Ranae L'Italien.

I'm the CEO of the Kennebec Valley YMCA.

I'm Paul Sveum. I'm the youth program and summer camp director

at the Kennebec Valley YMCA.

- Hey, guys. - Hey.

The YMCA is a non-profit charitable organization.

- Hi. - How you doing, guys?

- Hi, guys. - Hey. Welcome to Camp.

We thought that the Cabin Masters did a wonderful job

at our Augusta branch of our Kennebec Valley YMCA,

when they created a cabin for our playground.

So, we thought we would reach out

and see if they could help us out

with a new project that we have.

Let's go this way.

[Paul] Camp KV accepts kids from all over the state of Maine,

but, traditionally, most of our campers come

directly from the Augusta area.

We sit on approximately 80 acres of property on Maranacook Lake.

And this property itself has been a summer camp since the 1940s.

And we've been here since the mid-1980s.

What exactly are you guys looking to have done?

So, what we really would love to have

is a building living in this space

that will give our arts and crafts program a new home.

This area, with the great view of the lake

and being in close proximity to the lodge

- is, kind of, our center hub of operations. - [Ranae] Yeah.

This will be a great spot for a new cabin.

[Chase] You're just looking for a big, open space that's multi-purpose,

able to just, kind of, fit a bunch of kids.

If they spill paint, it's okay.

We don't have to worry about ruining anything.

When does your program start up normally in the season?

I think we're starting the second week of June.

- [Chase] Okay. - And running clear through the end of August.

- It's a nine-month timeline. - Nice.

We're hoping to get in here, get this wrapped up

before, you know, winter really sets in.

And then, as far as budget, what are we working with?

[chuckles] You know the drill.

- Zero. - [laughter]

So many friends, family have been involved

with the Y, with Camp KV, that we're glad to help with this project.

I think, you know, we've got a good idea of what you're looking for.

And I think, realistically, twelve weeks to get this project done,

you know, we can definitely get it done in that timeframe.

Gives us time to, kind of, you know, pool in help from the community.

Um, I think we just need...

Since there's no building, is there really a set of keys?

Well, we do have a set of keys to give you today.

- All right. - Keys to Camp KV.

- [Ryan] Oh, wow. - Oh.

[Ryan] Jeez. All right.

You get a whistle, too.

- Yes! - Get to work.

I will pick up a whistle.

- Wonderful. - We're excited.

[Ashley] We're gonna check out the land real quick...

- Cool. Yeah. - Thank you, guys.

- See you. - Bye, guys.

See you soon.

All right. So, show me where this building's going.

[Ryan] We're walking into it right now, right?

- [Chase] Yes. - You're walking into it.

- You're in it. - You're in it.

[Ryan] You're in it. [Chase] You're in it.

[Ashley] I'm in it.

So, get the posts set, and then, you know, we'll be building it

about this high up.

And pre-made trusses where the back two-thirds is going to be enclosed.

And then the front third will be like a covered porch

with two big garage doors that you can open up.

So, if it's nice out, you can open the whole space,

if it's rainy, shut it up, keep it closed.

Camp KV specifically needs an arts and crafts building.

They are hoping for something in the 20 by 16 range.

But we've got the space to do a 30 by 34,

so I think, you know, bigger is better in this situation, so...

I mean, the beauty of this is permits are already in place,

we just need to get Francis in here,

we need to get an arborist in here to take down some of these smaller trees.

And meet Techno Metal Post about setting posts.

And just start gathering materials

and reach out to the community.

[Ashley] All right.

- Sounds good. - Let's get out of here.

[Chase] We are at Camp KV on Maranacook Lake.

And we are laying out where the new arts and crafts building

for the summer camp program is gonna be located.

We need to take down some trees and clean up the area.

You know, clear a path to get vehicles in here

before we can even think about starting to build.

I would say from that large group of maples

over to that large maple there behind that metal stand

is what we need to clear out.

It's gonna be a 30 foot wide by 34 foot deep

arts and crafts building.

It's gonna start roughly...

Roughly right here.

So, it'll be kind of raised up.

So it'll be easy access, handicap access, right into it.

Everything, kind of, within here just needs to be cleared out

so we can plot it out,

figure out where we're gonna need to set post.

So, get in here, get some posts set and go from there.

[Ryan] Beautiful. [Brad] Right where I was aiming.

[Ryan] All right, where's it going now?

I've got a $20 bill between those trees.

If it lands, it's yours.

Fletcher, run the $20 bill down there, will ya?

Fletcher had a doctor's appointment today,

so that was a bad start today,

but he gets to finish it off with us.

Through that pile of brushes, set it right there.

Fletcher really enjoys being outdoors,

cutting down trees, being, you know...

Hanging out with all of us.

- [Fletcher speaking] - [Ryan] Through that pile of brush.

[Ryan] Because Brad's gonna drop the tree right there.

There's a $20 bill down there.

You think you can hit it? You got a straight shot?

Twenty bucks. What do you think, Fletch?

[chainsaw whirring]

He's going in. He's marking his cut.

He's checking the wind.

I can cut it and wedge it on one side.

It's leaning hard this way.

- [Chase] Run through the back. - He's got it.

[Chase] She's going downhill anyway.

[Ryan] Don't listen to the peanut gallery.

[Dixie] There it goes. [Jedi] Here she goes, brother.

[Chase] Get out of there, Brad. Get out of there.

[Ryan] Run!

Oh!

[Ryan] Twenty bucks. What do you think, Fletch?

We're in the first week at our second build for the YMCA.

I bet Brad 20 bucks he couldn't fell a tree onto a brush pile.

[Dixie] There it goes. [Jedi] Here she goes, brother.

[Chase] Get out of there, Brad. Get out of there.

[Ryan] Run!

Oh!

Missed it.

[laughing]

[Chase] That's where you wanted it to go.

Brad did great, you know.

He didn't win the 20 bucks, but he was close.

If we were in a true woodsman betting competition,

he might have been close enough, though.

No, don't tell him.

[Ashley] Come on, you gotta go.

My job today was to clear a path

so that we can get the work truck

down into the new area.

So, there's a bunch of painted rocks up here

that we noticed on the way in.

So, Chris is gonna come in and make a bigger path

so we can get the bigger equipment down here,

so I'm just gonna grab all the painted rocks so we don't lose them.

When I was clearing the path,

I found all these hand-painted rocks.

So, I wanted to grab these rocks, get them out, save them,

so I can bring them and put them in front of the new art cabin.

Ryan, Chase, Dixie and Jedi.

My silly little geese.

An organization like this, it really takes a village full of people

to be able to come back and make it happen for these kids.

[Chase] Big thing today is to get the trees down,

to get the lot cleared out,

to get the brush, kind of, out of the way, piled up,

so that we can see exactly where the camp's gonna be.

We've got to, kind of, build our own access road down in there,

which really just means moving some rocks that campers had painted

and getting rid of some of the undergrowth

just to have a clear shot.

[Brad] There. [Chase] Watch the kickback.

[Ashley] That was a good one. [Chase] Beautiful.

- Nice job, buddy. - Nice job, Brad.

[Ryan] Next year's firewood. [Brad] There you go.

You know, we want to give back to the community.

The community's been so good to us, helped us grow,

and we're in a situation where we can help.

You know, 30 by 34 building, that's a piece of cake for us.

You know, clearing the trees apart

is probably going to be the hardest part.

[grunts]

Whoa.

Oh, gosh. This is scary.

Oh, gosh.

Now which way?

Over this tree?

[Ryan] Look out. You might run your brother over.

[Ashley] Oh, boy.

Ah!

[Chase] Whoa, whoa, whoa. [Ryan] Oh.

[Ashley] Oh, gosh. I'm gonna be stuck in this...

[Chase] Now, cut the other way. Hard, hard, hard.

- [Ashley] This way? - Cut hard, hard, hard.

[Dixie] What's she doing, Charlie?

- No. - [Chase] Pump it.

- [Ryan] Oh. - Now cut it this way.

[Ashley] Oh, my goodness.

Backing up the work truck wasn't fun.

This is a 75 million point turn.

She's gonna get pinned right in between

those two trees and the telephone pole.

You're gonna get pinned. No. Yeah.

Cut it the other way.

We might need Brad to cut this tree down.

[Chase] Cut it the other way.

[Ashley] Chase, kind of, was guiding me through it.

I think I did a 78-point turn.

I thought I was gonna get stuck

in between the telephone pole and that tree.

It was like... But I made it out.

We know where we want to locate the arts and crafts building.

We know the size that the arts and crafts building is going to be.

We know how far back from the water we need to be.

But it's kind of sandwiched in-between

couple of good-sized maples, couple of good-sized hemlocks.

You get paid by the hour, I take it.

Oh, it's a wrap.

This building looks great.

It was fantastic.

We've got it, kind of, laid out now.

Now we can get everything we need in here to keep moving forward.

Come on, Fletch. You got some wood to unload,

and split, and stack.

Come on, Fletch.

[Chase] It's week two.

We are at Camp KV setting the posts

for the new arts and crafts building.

We've got 16 posts to set so we can start building the floor deck.

Hopefully, it all goes smoothly,

and they're able to get the posts up.

You know, luckily, it's not solid ledge,

where they know they wouldn't be able to,

it's small chunks of rock.

Um, rotten ledge they call it.

Where, if they can, kind of, work in between the rocks,

then those posts are getting locked in there.

There's no way those are coming out.

[Ryan] Get on it, Francis.

How's that look?

Marvelous.

So, we had Techno Metal Post come and set posts.

It's super boney ground.

They did as many as they could.

I think we got, what...

We needed 16 posts, we were able to get 12,

so we are hand setting the last four.

Basically, we've got four rows running this way.

And all we care is that these are in a straight line

so that we can set our carrying beams

to support the floor system.

Typically, you don't have 26-foot-long six by six carrying beams,

so we need to figure out where to splice them together.

And we want the splice to land on a post

for all four carrying beams.

[Ryan] It's looking good now.

That's permanent.

You know, it's really nice to start fresh.

You know, Chase and I put the other piers in,

so we knew what we were up against.

I always believe, like, many hands make slight work,

so I love having a big crew here.

As long as you keep people organized, things go quick.

[Chase] This arts and crafts building for Camp KV

is going to be a 32 by 26 structure.

One floor, we put down the deck boards out front,

frame up the walls, strap the walls,

put up our front carrying beam,

put up our siding and set our trusses.

[Ryan] After today, we're gonna have the camp floor done.

We'll have the beam up.

If three guys come, they don't have to lift a heavy beam,

they can put the deck floor joists and then go from there.

Next, we'll do the deck floor system, then we'll build up.

You know, all the materials are here so it's go time.

- [Chase] Good morning. - Morning.

[Chase] It's week three at KV Camp,

but we've really only worked on this place three to four days.

We have until late spring to get this camp finished up.

But it's down a long Camp road,

it's not ploughed,

so we want to get out of here as soon as we can

before it gets snowed in.

Today, our goal is to get this front decked over,

walls framed up and some strapping on.

So, Chase, what do you see for, uh, timeline

on the trusses and roof?

I think if we have three days next week,

we should be able to get them up and supported.

So, Ryan and Sarah are getting staging set,

Dixie's cutting all the studs,

and I'm now starting to assemble the walls.

[Dixie] Compressors are frozen.

[grunts] Hoses are frozen.

We're ready to get started today, it's cold.

We've got everything connected,

we're ready to start framing,

and it seems like our hoses are frozen.

Both ends aren't working.

I knew that was gonna happen.

[Ryan laughing]

[Dixie] Compressors are frozen.

[grunts] Hoses are frozen.

I've got some cordless guns.

[Ryan] They're good.

Hoses weren't frozen, the compressors weren't plugged in.

That's lesson 101.

They thought hoses are frozen,

but they forgot to turn the compressors on, so...

Problems are... We're already knocking down problems today.

[Chase] This is all new construction,

and we've got a good, level floor system.

So, we're framing up the walls.

Sixteen on center, two by four construction.

We do our layout,

you know, we've set our window openings,

we've cut all our jacks.

The nice thing about it is it's all one level,

so we can cut all the studs at the same height.

You know, we can cut all our jacks at the same height

because the headers are all the same.

So, it's basically layout, studs, frame up,

you know, stand the walls, strap them up.

We're doing vertical sides,

so, you know, we have to do horizontal strapping regardless.

And because it's such a small structure,

there's really no interior walls,

there's nothing to keep the building from, like,

moving this way or that way.

So, by doing these diagonals,

you know, that lock will keep it from moving that way,

and we do it on that side to keep it from moving that way.

And because we're doing a truss system,

you know, it's going to be one truss the whole way out.

It'll help lock all that in place as well.

[Ashley] What's going on?

Look at this building, Charlie.

[Ryan] Charlie, come here. Come on.

[Ashley] Go on, Charlie. [Ryan] Come on.

[Ashley] I'll do a lot of little things for Camp,

but one thing I really want to do

is make an arts and crafts sign for the arts and crafts camp.

I already started this project.

So, my friend, Jeff, gave me all these cookies,

and I've been holding on to them

because I just wanted to do something fun with them.

Those cookies are not for eating.

What are you doing? You, too.

You know, today is probably too cold.

Um, epoxy needs more of a warm environment

for it to dry.

So, I'll just spell out the words today and get them prepared.

And then, as soon as I get the frame made,

I can just see the rest of it.

Come on. No, it's not a chocolate chip cookie.

Ash, what are you doing?

Hi. I'm making a sign.

You're making a sign, huh?

Making a sign out of cookies.

[Jedi] Very nice.

[Ashley] Well, you know what, the building's new.

- Yeah. - [Ashley] Kids aren't gonna know what it is.

Why not make a nice little sign with these cookies?

- [Jedi] Right. - I've had them forever.

But I'm having a hard time finding all the little ones.

- What are you making? - Farts.

[Ashley] Should've known. [laughter continues]

[Ashley sighs]

- [Ashley] Bye. - [Chase] Bye.

[Ashley] So now, what I'll do is

I will take this home,

probably rework it a little bit, but not much,

I kinda like the way it looks right now,

and then, yeah. [claps hands]

That's it for arts and crafts day for Ashley.

[Ashley] Oh, with arts and crafts

you're always looking for whatever you can...

find... to, like, make an art... a craft out of.

Uh, so I think it's just really fitting

to use these cookies for the sign.

[Chase] These would make good ears.

[Ashley chuckles] I want a beer.

Is this Santa's workshop? I'm an elf.

- Let's see here. - [Chase laughs]

[Chase] Oh, yeah. [both laugh]

Yours look really good.

That one looks really good.

Yours look pretty good, too.

[Ashley] We should take a picture of it.

- Let's go say hi to the guys. - [Ashley] Okay.

We couldn't hear what's going on over there.

[Ashley chuckling]

- Are those your six by ones? - [Ashley] Yeah.

Can't hear ya.

- Be careful... - What's that?

[Chase and Ashley laugh]

She looks like an elf.

I wanna see what I look like.

You look pretty funny.

[Chase] All right, back to work.

[Chase] Yeah, we went very quickly today.

I didn't necessarily expect to have

all the strapping up on the walls,

so... that's a bonus.

[Chase] It's week five at camp KV...

and it is truss raising day.

Let's set it down.

[Chase] The trusses are 34 feet long, nine feet tall.

Typically, you get a boom truck in here or some sort of crane.

Set on a place, we don't have that luxury.

Luckily, they're pretty small so they're not too much work.

We gonna try to get a square peg in a round hole.

Some of us wanna go over,

someone has to go under,

I think we wanna go over the top personally, but...

[indistinct conversation]

Now just go with it over the top and slide it like we always do.

[Ryan] One, two, three.

There we go!

This camp is...

32 by 26,

and the trusses are 34 long, nine feet tall.

So we're sliding them up that front wall.

Oh, yeah, baby!

All right, we're gonna get someone on the center there

to get that up over the plate.

[Chase] Slide em across flat and then standing 'em up,

and locking em' one by one.

Once we get, probably, two or three more,

we'll put in some cross bracing

to really, structurally, lock those all together.

We're spacing our trusses two foot on center.

They do make metal clips

that you kind of clip on each one but... [drill whirring]

We find that if you can use

two by sixes of any real material

it helps lock 'em in better.

The big thing about setting trusses

is making sure they're braced off when they're up.

Uh, the first couple are pretty flimsy,

but as soon as you can you get diagonals in there every which way

to really brace it off

so that they can't move on you.

And, you know, those...

those diagonals are gonna be there

for the long run.

They're permanent,

and then they'll help lock everything together

and keep it from moving.

Now that the trusses are up,

I'm very confident in our timeline.

Weather is always a big obstacle.

You know, we don't have to set trusses in snow

or ice or anything like that...

So, really...

I think we're in good shape.

[Chase] It's late November...

it's cold...

You just gotta keep moving,

you go to keep your fingers from freezing up.

[tools whirring]

[Ryan] This weather we're experiencing right now,

it's not that bad.

It's the real ice and snow events

that we're really worried about.

Budget wise, we're over budget from day one on this thing, so...

[laughs] That doesn't matter.

[Ryan] Good week this week,

we got a lot done.

Ended the week with siding all the way around.

Very simple design, very simple build, but still...

In new construction you still run into issues.

You know, lumber's all different, lumber has moisture content.

It swells, it dries, it twists, it cracks.

There's a lot going on.

You know, things move, things shift, so...

because sometimes even with new construction you gotta slow it down,

prep and do the right thing.

I'm at my barn

working on a custom piece for the project.

Those are my plans

for the easel for the camp KV arts and crafts building.

I am building a small, portable, collapsible easel

that can easily be set up,

and the kids can do their artwork and crafts right on them.

So the idea of the easel is to be able to...

you know, have it like this, two people per easel

be able to attach paper, whatever to it,

and also have a little tray or compartment to...

hold...

paints, whatever.

It's really simple, it's one by four, two by four,

whatever you have kicking around

with a small tray and just any thickness of plywood on the back of it.

You know, once we get this one dealt,

either me or the guys will make, you know,

five or six more of them.

[Chase] It's all material I had kicking around,

so it's not that much. It's like...

a couple eight footers of...

one by four pine...

'cause, you know, this is where the paper is gonna sit against.

I left it up an inch, so you can, like,

clip the paper up to there.

So that, right there,

is one half of the easel.

And then you put your paint, art supplies right in there,

you got a nice solid space.

This is an arts and crafts building for summer camp.

I mean, it is meant to get dirty, messy...

for kids to get creative, have fun.

There aren't going to be kitchens, bathrooms, seating areas,

it's just gonna be as much work space as possible.

I've got a chain here and some eye hooks...

to lock it together so it can't separate too far,

but it'll still close back up.

So I'll just give it a quick sand

to knock down any of the sharp edges.

[machine whirring]

It's gonna get beat up, it's gonna get dirty,

but that's what you want, so...

Now I just need to go and

gather up some materials for the rest of them.

[Ryan] Trees are down.

We're back after the storm.

First snow storm of the year,

and it turned, like, half ice, half rain, half snow.

There's nothing we could do about covering the roof,

but now it's covered in ice.

So we got a good hour of scraping and chipping.

...are coming today we got to chip our way...

[Jedi] So we have a lovely skating rink here today

at the Y camp.

We thought we had winter beat,

but unfortunately, we lost.

Uh, snow came in over the weekend,

eight inches to a foot of snow.

It was wet, it was heavy,

and it's frozen now.

[Ryan] And we're revealing this this week,

the temperature is supposed to stay below freezing.

Now winter came in like that and it set in so...

[tapping]

I don't know what's gonna happen to the floor.

[hammers tapping]

[Ryan] Just like that, mother nature

turned her switch from...

fall to winter.

All we're gonna do is...

scrape the ice here so the door will go in and scrape that side.

[Ashley] Ryan give me a call,

and asked me if I could pick up some ice salts.

It's like Styrofoam, almost...

I guess...

Let's just put it down and see what happens.

I'm just gonna do a test spot

in front of the window,

and let it set for a minute and see what happens.

Oh, listen...

I hear it.

[Ashley] That is my stuff working.

This experiment's getting better by the minute.

It's got a long way to go, but it's working. [exhales]

[Ashley] The whole cabin is full of ice.

Like, two inches thick.

It's just gonna take a lot of this stuff

to get it to break through this much ice.

[Chase] So, we didn't beat the snow,

it was a wet, heavy snow, it froze solid,

so there's a thick layer of ice on the floor right now

that we need to get out before we, uh, give the camp back.

There's bags of the white pellets...

it'll at least...

Break it up and then we can shovel it out...

- with a plastic headed shovel. - [Jedi] Right.

This is an arts and crafts building for a summer camp.

It's not insulated,

it's super basic,

It's meant to get dirty and messy.

We gotta unload all these panels real quick.

[Chase] How long are they?

[Ryan] Nineteen feet.

[Chase] The roofing is here, we're ready to roof.

[Ryan] I say we just get up there.

Everyone's saying, "One bay, scrape your base..."

[Ryan] Oh, Brad's here, doesn't stand a chance.

- Whew. - [Ryan] Yeah, it's all over now.

Special weapon.

We gonna work from that side over,

have people stationed up and over,

and then send the panels up.

We'll send that one for that side up and over,

then we'll do this side.

- [man] Woo-hoo! - Little bit more.

[Chase] Exterior's painted, so once the roof goes on,

really, it's just installing the doors,

installing the windows,

and putting the railing on the back landings and the front porch.

[machine whirring]

And really will be ready to get Ashley in here

to do her design work and...

ready to give it back.

[Ryan] This is the way to do it.

Simple design, a lot of people.

[Chase] There's enough of us here

where we can just slide the panels up over,

and we kind of work both sides,

versus us having to do one side and then the other side.

So we're really efficient,

we're able to get done it fairly quickly.

[machine whirs]

[Chase] Next steps are to get the doors installed,

get screening up under the covered porch

to keep bugs and critters out.

Get Francis in here to put a drip edge

and level out the front of the stairs...

And then it's ready for Ashley and her team.

Oh, yeah, here we go.

[speaking softly] I'll get your jacket all taken care of.

Okay.

[Ashley] These guys are still finishing up

the roof and everything today.

I was coming out today to do some arts and crafts.

I'm gonna set up my table right at the site,

and we're gonna do arts and crafts in the sun today.

- [dog barks] - [Ashley] What?

- [dog barks] - [Ashley] What?

- [dog growls] - [Ashley] Go get your daddy,

go get someone to come paint with me.

[tapping]

[dog barks]

[Chase] Where is she?

- [dog barks] - Arts and crafts!

- [dog barks] - By the... In the field?

Yes! Okay, let's go.

Show me the way.

Show me the way. Where's mom?

Where's Ashley? Where is she?

Where is she? Let's go.

You brought daddy back! You're such good doggy's.

[Ashley laughs]

Charlie and Gus, they're good.

I said, "Go get your daddy."

Sure enough, they ran off and went and got him.

I don't know if Gus is getting good in his old age,

he's starting to understand English really well.

Can I borrow this? My knees are cold, thanks.

Hopefully, the other people that currently work with me

aren't as high maintenance as you.

You don't want anyone else to come over there.

I want everybody to come over.

[Ashley] So I have a box of wooden tree cookies,

so when we cut down trees there could be extra limbs.

A great way to utilize those is to cut them into little slices,

and we can use those for little projects.

And today we're gonna do a team painting session

using all of my extra cookies.

[Chase] Gus says, "I've had enough, too."

- Gus, you're over this? Me, too. - [Ashley laughs]

[Ashley] I carved these extra cookies from the sign that I made.

They love to paint on rocks here,

and I just think there should be another addition,

show them another thing outside

that they can gather when we're long gone

that's free, and that they could hang up

as decoration, as art.

[Ashley laughing] Yeah. Charlie looks funny.

[Ashley and Chase laugh]

- It doesn't look like her? - Charlie, you look brown.

- [Ashley] Can you, uh, send the next person up please? - All right.

It's nice to get them off the job site,

I mean, even though it's not necessarily warm.

[Ashley] It's still something different,

and it's something other than pounding nails.

I'm gonna take em' home and shellac em',

and then I'm gonna put a hole through the top

and then I'm gonna hang them around here as decorations.

Hey, they w ere good sports, they all did

some really, really cool little paintings so...

I'm excited to put them up.

It'll take my guys from 10:30 to 1:45,

I see how it is.

The place isn't gonna finish itself.

[wood thuds]

[tools whirring]

[Ashley] Over the last 24 hours,

my team and I came in, moved in all the furniture,

got it looking absolutely perfect.

[Chase] The new arts and crafts building is done.

We promised we'd have it ready before next season,

but we wanted to be out here before it got snowed in.

There's not too much snow on the ground.

[Chase] We didn't have any budget so...

- I'd say we did all right. - [Ashley laughs]

[Ashley] I t's winter right now,

and so the kids, obviously, aren't here,

they're not back until the spring,

but I can just picture them, and they're all...

buzzing around, all little...

you know, doing their little arts projects.

[Ashley] I had so much fun shopping for art supplies.

Uh, it's like a dream come true,

going and picking out every single arts supply

that I ever wanted to use when I was a kid.

It gives the kids a lot of inspiration,

and we're ready to go.

Oh, that looks good.

Woo-hoo!

- Wow, you didn't even need my help. - No.

[Ashley laughs]

- [Ashley] You like it? - [Chase] Love it.

[Ashley] Arts and crafts camp.

Okay, let me just write something,

a little note to the kids.

- What should I write? - Welcome to camp.

Please follow all the rules.

To camp...

KV.

Exclamation point, exclamation point.

[Ashley] We're ready. Let me put this in here real quick.

- [Ashley] Let's do this. - [Chase] All right.

[Chase] Shut the door.

[Ashley] Come on, they're gonna love it.

Hi, guys.

- Hey! - Hi.

How's it going?

[Chase] Welcome to your new arts and crafts building.

- [Ranae] This is awesome. - [Paul] It looks so awesome, you guys.

- [Ashley] Sweet. - Thank you guys so much.

Absolutely. We had the best time doing it.

[Ranae] This is awesome!

[Paul] That's amazing.

Now the first thing I saw coming down the road

was just how well this building fits in

to the natural setting of the camp.

[Ranae] I didn't expect it to be so big.

I expected a smaller space.

This is definitely better than we could have ever imagined.

I pulled out rocks when we started,

uh, just because Francis came in

and was doing a little bit of dirt work,

- so I just didn't want em to get ruined... - [Paul] Nice.

- [Paul] That's awesome. - So I put it back out this morning...

- Oh, nice. The kids are proud of theirs. - For display.

[Paul] Oh, and I love the sign, "Arts and crafts." That's rare.

- [Ranae] Very cool. - [Ashley] I had some little cookies...

so I came out here one day,

and put together the arts and crafts sign.

That is awesome!

- Yeah. - That looks so nice.

So, wait, wait, wait...

- Those are cookies? Can we eat em? - [Ashley] Oh!

[Chase] Not... They're not.

[Paul] I think the "not cookies"

are definitely the highlight

of the exterior finish of this building.

[Chase] From the ground up, we came in here cleared out the trees,

we ended up with a thirty by...

twenty six size building.

Nice level entrance...

handicap accessible.

- ...metal roofing donated the roofing materials. - [Paul] Wow.

[Ranae] It's really nice to have a building

that was built solely

on materials that were collected from the community.

Camp KV has been here for a while,

so there's a lot of alumni that are out there in the community,

and they offer up a lot of their services,

their materials,

and made it all come together.

- [Ashley] I'm excited for you guys to see the inside. - [Ranae] The best part.

- [Paul] Yeah. - [Chase] Yeah. Head on in.

Whoa!

[Paul] Oh, yeah.

- [Ranae] Oh, this is awesome! - [Ashley laughs]

- [Paul] This is so cool, you guys. - [Ashley laughs]

[Paul] I love it.

This is absolutely amazing.

[Ashley] Tons of space, tons of places for the kids to spread out.

[Paul] Oh, I love the little island in the middle, too.

[Ashley] Yeah...

[Paul] I think, you know, this is way more than I expected.

I can't wait to see the kids reactions.

When they come in the spring.

- Man, this is so cool. - Oh, this is beautiful.

- [Chase] It's pine forest... - [Paul] Yeah.

[Chase] tongue and groove and...

you know, there's a bunch of defects in this stuff,

- but it's an arts and crafts building... - [Paul] Right.

- [Ranae] Yeah. - [Chase] It's meant to be used, get messy.

- You know, kids are gonna come in here... - [Ranae] All right.

...do their arts and crafts and make a mess.

- [Paul] Right. No, I love that. - [Ashley laughs]

'Cause you want the kids to be able to feel they can be creative.

- Yeah. - And being creative for a six year old,

- means there's paint going everywhere. - Yeah, yeah.

- [Ranae] Yeah, paint everywhere. - For sure.

[Ashley] We all went in one day,

had an arts session,

where all the guys here

painted one of the nots with me.

Um, and then Chase custom designed these easels

that are all throughout the building.

These are easily the best thing I've seen today.

You know, I think having the space for our kids at camp

is really gonna give our arts and crafts program a home to live.

[Ranae] And it expands the inside space for rainy days.

We now have a covered porch,

and another inside space for when it's rainy out,

the kids will have a lot more things to do.

[Chase] This front covered porch,

you know, you can put these doors in,

so on a nice day...

- [Paul] Wow! That's so cool. - [Ranae] Whoa!

Just open em right up...

- Nice. - Then you got this nice...

- covered area. - Oh, wow.

- It's like a whole other classroom out here. - Yeah, it is.

It really is.

This is going to be a great place

for me to drink my coffee in the morning.

I knew you were going there.

It's really cool to see Ashley and Chase

come back as alumni, they used to go to camp.

And now they're back here

helping us make camp even better for everybody else.

You know, the place is all ready for you next season so...

just have to hand you back your keys.

- [Ranae] Thank you. - [Chase] You're welcome.

- So, thank you, guys. - Thank you, guys.

[Paul] You know, thank you Cabin Masters

for coming out and, you know, donating your time,

your resources,

to provide this, you know, great new resource for our camp,

uh, in a time where we probably need it the most,

so thank you so much.