7 May 2011

Except for the FBF (hint: the last two letters stand for “black flies”), a beautiful day.  Normal routine: another course of rocks laid on three of the incomplete west wall sections and two courses on the section with the electrical box, this time without upsetting myself while laying the second course.  Finished hand digging the area for the auxiliary storage area that will be under the ramp into the woodshed proper.  Had to move two big rocks out of the way, one of which (by measurement and calculation) weighed 175 lbs.  That little task would have been MUCH easier with a backhoe, but I got the thing lifted and relocated without destroying any body parts.  Was ready to dive into the lake at that point, but I don’t think the lake is quite ready for diving.  A HUGE boulder that I thought I was going to have to incorporate into one of the footers turns out to be ½ inch clear of where the footer form will be placed.  Had to make an emergency run into Brandon after dinner: was out of honey roasted peanuts.  No, actually, the RV smoke detector (that gets a regular workout from my culinary attempts) was acting like it needed a new battery, even though I replaced the battery on arrival in April.  Well, apparently it weren’t the battery that was bad…  One more thing added to the two page list of things to bring up from Virginia.