5 May 2011

Another nasty, cold, rainy day.  The sun came out for five minutes every couple of hours just to tease me, but I’m wise to that game… kept my raincoat on the whole day.  Laid and parged two courses in the section where the electrical box is mounted.  That is especially tricky since the first course’s mortar isn’t set too well when you start setting rocks for the second course, even though I did the first course first thing in the morning and didn’t start on the second course until after lunch.  Also put another course on the other three incomplete sections on the west wall.  Finished all that work by 3:15, so picked rock for awhile and moved the last of the spruce and fir that was cut for the driveway to the campfire stack.  Now all of the piles of “stuff” that once littered the driveway are gone.  Noted that in the electrical panel Liam labeled the circuit breaker for the shed “Doug’s Man Cave”.  After all the recent rain the lake water level now is maybe ¼ inch below the top of the dock… on the high end of the dock.  On a positive note, Lake Champlain is 3 FEET above flood stage and still rising, making a lot of lakeside property owners over there quite unhappy.  No worries here; Fern Lake would have to rise another 60 feet before Delores’ tootsies would get damp.