Laid awake much of the night thinking about beams with too much wane. Bummer! After breakfast, confirmed my fears – three of the six beams do, indeed, have so much wane that the joist hangers will not attach properly. So one of the 10″ beams will have to be resawed into an 8″, one of the 8″ will have to be resawed into a 6″, the 8″ with the hole in it will have to be resawed into a 2″ (thus solving the errant hole problem) and sistered to the 6″, and a large oak top in the house-site pile will have to be sawed into a new 10″ beam. Good news for Toby, bad news for my checkbook. Chree and I took the measurements for where the holes will have to be drilled in each beam. Then she gathered and washed a bucket of small stones (for making concrete) while I hand-dug (literally) the hole for the driveway sign. After retrieving said sign from the Pittsford Kubota dealer and an old plastic pickle barrel that Perry was donating to the cause, Chree learned how to make a batch of concrete so that we could set the sign in place, concreted into the barrel. So now our driveway officially exists! No doubt 1750 Lake Dunmore Road, also known as Triangle Square Circle, will soon be a prominent Google Maps landmark. Hot dogs and marshmallows over the wood fire to celebrate.
