21 September 2011

A moment of silence, s’il vous plait, for the not unexpected passing of Mr. Skill Saw, who will be sorely missed.  He gave up the ghost in a cloud of smoke, with screeching bearings, and has gone to a better place, i.e., the recycle bin.  Looks like Christmas is going to come a little early this year… In addition to destroying a much needed implement of construction, I laid rock all day, which takes a lot longer when you have to shape stones completely by hand with hammer and chisel.  Pikey Many and Mike Desjadon from Custom Roofing and Sheet Metal arrived mid-afternoon to get started on putting the standing seam metal roof on the shed.  They got scaffolding up and installed the drip edge on all but the east side.  The lake water temperature is now 70 degrees.