Finished cleaning up assorted limbs and downed trees for the driveway… all 405 feet of it. A few mosquitoes about, but they weren’t hungry. Visited Kampersville Campground at the north end of Lake Dunmore to find out about their RV pump out facilities. $10 a pop to dump your poop! They also sell propane at a considerable markup over normal retail. Agway in Middlebury has much more reasonable propane prices. Delivered the balky chainsaw to Dave Bishop for further investigation and repair of the starting problems. Spent an hour, shovel in hand, taking out some of the side-slope on the path from the house site down to the lake. Put the ladder for the tree platform back up… much easier this time using Kristen’s grandfather’s block and
tackle. (Kristen is number one son's wife.) Was raising the actual platform quite easily using said block and tackle when the platform got hung up momentarily on the ladder. So up the ladder I climbed (what’s that you say, NEVER stand under a suspended load?). About 15 feet off the ground there was a VERY LOUD CRACK! Remember that “not structural” damage to the ladder? Well it weren’t not structural. FORTUNATELY for yours truly (as in it's sometimes better to be lucky than good), only one side of the ladder fractured, so a safe retreat was made… and the camera fetched.
Finished cleaning up assorted limbs and downed trees for the driveway… all 405 feet of it. A few mosquitoes about, but they weren’t hungry. Visited Kampersville Campground at the north end of Lake Dunmore to find out about their RV pump out facilities. $10 a pop to dump your poop! They also sell propane at a considerable markup over normal retail. Agway in Middlebury has much more reasonable propane prices. Delivered the balky chainsaw to Dave Bishop for further investigation and repair of the starting problems. Spent an hour, shovel in hand, taking out some of the side-slope on the path from the house site down to the lake. Put the ladder for the tree platform back up… much easier this time using Kristen’s grandfather’s block and 
tackle. (Kristen is number one son's wife.) Was raising the actual platform quite easily using said block and tackle when the platform got hung up momentarily on the ladder. So up the ladder I climbed (what’s that you say, NEVER stand under a suspended load?). About 15 feet off the ground there was a VERY LOUD CRACK! Remember that “not structural” damage to the ladder? Well it weren’t not structural. FORTUNATELY for yours truly (as in it's sometimes better to be lucky than good), only one side of the ladder fractured, so a safe retreat was made… and the camera fetched.
