Promptly at 9 o’clock a Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS) line truck showed up to connect the electrical service. Of course, to make the connection, they had to cut off power at the transformer, which also supplies juice to the Glassners… just as Shelley wanted to take a shower. When your water comes from the lake, no power means no water. The power company guys graciously delayed throwing the switch until Shelley was done bathing. While looking again at the power termination pedestal dawn came over Marblehead… the pedestal is set too high. The electrical meter is supposed to be five feet above ground level, which it is, but the ground level at that point is 2 – 3 feet higher than it will be when the driveway is finished. Hmmm…. After the CVPS guys left, spent the remainder of the morning cutting trees that Bob LaPorte had knocked down on Monday. One was a 14″ maple that took him two scoops at the roots and a shove with the excavator bucket to put on the ground. Tell me again why I spent a WEEK busting my butt clearing trees out of the driveway path with a balky chainsaw???? This morning I was trying to get the saw to misbehave so I could take it back to Champlain Valley Equipment. The $%#@! thing must be clairvoyant… ran okay. Early afternoon drove into Middlebury for typical RV supplies: radiator coolant, wine, more wine, and 12 volt light bulbs. Then took The Beast up to Kampersville for one of their $10 tank dumping specials… and a water tank top-off. Maybe shouldn’t have waited ‘till the holding tanks were approaching full… the trip north was a tad smelly. Guess that’s why they make scented candles! Saw a couple of hearty souls swimming in Lake Dunmore. Must have been out-of-staters... Vermonters don’t go in the water voluntarily until August. While backing The
Beast into its Fern Lake parking spot, had a close encounter of the worst kind with a black cherry. Didn’t hurt the tree or the new mirror, but Junction Auto will have some additional work to do during the next visit, straightening the rear bumper. Typical of the day, the radiator coolant level changed not a whit during the outing. Hmmm… in triplicate!!! A bottle of Beringer’s White Zinfandel went down REAL easy after that… drunk out of a frozen beer stein, no less. Discovered why you need air conditioning in Vermont… no-see-ums can fit through screen windows.
Promptly at 9 o’clock a Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS) line truck showed up to connect the electrical service. Of course, to make the connection, they had to cut off power at the transformer, which also supplies juice to the Glassners… just as Shelley wanted to take a shower. When your water comes from the lake, no power means no water. The power company guys graciously delayed throwing the switch until Shelley was done bathing. While looking again at the power termination pedestal dawn came over Marblehead… the pedestal is set too high. The electrical meter is supposed to be five feet above ground level, which it is, but the ground level at that point is 2 – 3 feet higher than it will be when the driveway is finished. Hmmm…. After the CVPS guys left, spent the remainder of the morning cutting trees that Bob LaPorte had knocked down on Monday. One was a 14″ maple that took him two scoops at the roots and a shove with the excavator bucket to put on the ground. Tell me again why I spent a WEEK busting my butt clearing trees out of the driveway path with a balky chainsaw???? This morning I was trying to get the saw to misbehave so I could take it back to Champlain Valley Equipment. The $%#@! thing must be clairvoyant… ran okay. Early afternoon drove into Middlebury for typical RV supplies: radiator coolant, wine, more wine, and 12 volt light bulbs. Then took The Beast up to Kampersville for one of their $10 tank dumping specials… and a water tank top-off. Maybe shouldn’t have waited ‘till the holding tanks were approaching full… the trip north was a tad smelly. Guess that’s why they make scented candles! Saw a couple of hearty souls swimming in Lake Dunmore. Must have been out-of-staters... Vermonters don’t go in the water voluntarily until August. While backing The
Beast into its Fern Lake parking spot, had a close encounter of the worst kind with a black cherry. Didn’t hurt the tree or the new mirror, but Junction Auto will have some additional work to do during the next visit, straightening the rear bumper. Typical of the day, the radiator coolant level changed not a whit during the outing. Hmmm… in triplicate!!! A bottle of Beringer’s White Zinfandel went down REAL easy after that… drunk out of a frozen beer stein, no less. Discovered why you need air conditioning in Vermont… no-see-ums can fit through screen windows.
