16 September 2010

Spent the morning loading the van with everything that won’t be needed at Fern Lake for the rest of the building season (wanna bet????), including the radial arm saw (which Marty helped wrestle into place) and all but one of the ladders. Quite a load! Spent some quality time early afternoon on the RV roof caulking myriad cracks. This, apparently, needs to be an annual maintenance item. Then picked rock for an hour before the forecast rain rolled in. Ceil Todd came over to admire the season’s progress. She’s a Town Lister (and our across the road neighbor), so hope my property tax assessment doesn’t go up! Wet anyway, decided to go for one last (?) swim, which was amazingly invigorating once the shock of entry wore off. Ulterior motive was to raise the dock steps out of the water for the winter. Boy are they HEAVY after soaking in the lake all season!!!! Retired to the RV, whose heater works just fine, thank you!