17 April 2011

Tackled the mouse-nest-in-oven situation right after breakfast.  To call the interior of the oven filthy does a great disservice to good old all American filth.  My profound apologies to everyone who has previously eaten food prepared in that appliance.  Obviously those of you still alive have excellent immune systems.  Spent the balance of the morning preparing a fabulous evening repast for Alex and Katy, who arrived at 11:30 for an overnight stay.  After lunch, Alex and I bucked up, split, and stacked .43 cords of spruce and fir that once inhabited the area where the woodshed is being built.  We now have a more than abundant supply of campfire wood.  What we don’t have is weather conducive to sitting around a campfire of an evening.  Katy, who is working on a double Masters degree from Boston University, spent the afternoon studying inside Delores’ palatial and warm accommodations.