3 May 2010

Threatened rain all morning, so got all the remaining rebar steel moved to three staging areas and under tarps, loaded sundry items into the van for return to Virginia on Wednesday, then gave Delores a thorough cleaning preparatory to the Lapidus’ coming over for dinner. Black flies out in numbers and somewhat bothersome, but nothing a liberal coating of Deep Woods Off couldn’t mitigate. Rained for all of fifteen minutes at noon, then cleared off into a beautiful day. Drove down to Brandon after lunch for victuals and to visit local banks to see about setting up accounts. Then spent some quality time with a pickax, shovel, and rake trying to level off the area where the shed underground roof will be poured. Word of explanation: rather than place forms in the shed cellar hole and then fill them with concrete for the roof, I am going to pour the roof in forms laid on the ground, then use a crane to move the roof into position after the concrete has completely set. Whoever said that there are a thousand rocks in Leicester for every inhabitant obviously was referring just to the 10′ x 12′ spot I was working on. Burnt spareribs over the cook fire and served them with profuse apologies, baked potatoes, and fresh green beans mixed with sautéed garlic and wild leeks (donated to the cause by Perry – who refuses to divulge where his secret leek patch is located). Washed down with a 2008 Casa Sant’Orsola Muscato d’Asti followed by a 2005 Chrysalis Norton Estate Bottled. Spilled half a glass of the latter into the toaster after Marty and Merry had ventured homeward. Don’t know how I could suddenly be so clumsy… but guess I’d better put off doing the dinner dishes until tomorrow. Pop-Tarts for breakfast????