24 April 2011

Steve, Perry, and I removed the old sauna stove (weighing several hundred pounds) out of Steve’s sauna room, no mean feat as some disassembly of the room doorway was required.  Wonder what the back pain level will be tonight???? Steve gave me a wheelbarrow load of stones (that used to provide sauna steam) that I will incorporate into the shed walls as a memento to hot times in Calais.  Then we went down the road to Paul Orlander’s for a tour of his sugar house and to pick up a couple of gallons of maple syrup. After that, (joined by Steve’s girlfriend, Mary) we journeyed down to the big city (Montpelier) where we met Alverta for Easter buffet brunch at J. Morgans Restaurant (where Perry recently spent several weeks helping with a major renovation).  Then Perry and I headed back to Salisbury and Leicester, arriving home just before 4... and vowing never to eat again.  (Kim and Leanne – shades of San Diego all over again, except the chocolate fountain wasn’t nearly as spectacular!)  Perry came over to Fern Lake with Erin (his daughter – who was making her first visit to the property) for another load of firewood.  I worked until dark moving into a pile by the campfire site the spruce and fir logs that Perry had rejected.  Now have well over a cord ready for cutting and splitting after we use up the large pile that Alex spit last week.  A glass of 2008 River Road Zinfandel Reserve Selection was dinner.