25 April 2012

Dolores needed some exercise after hibernating all winter and she hasn’t kicked her addiction to propane, so we trundled our way to Agway in Middlebury to get her a fix… at a bit more than $4/gallon.  That’s expensive heat!  And speaking of cold weather, the temperature was only 48 at 1 o’clock when I broke for lunch.  On the can of siding sealer / stain it clearly says, “do not apply if the temperature is below 50 degrees or expected to be below 50 degrees within 48 hours”.  I was wondering why the sealer / stain applied over the past couple of days didn’t seem to be drying…  Rather than exacerbate that situation by putting up more shingles, I made a shingle hod, i.e., a tray for quickly sorting the shingles by width and then even more quickly being able to select the shingle of the correct width that is needed next.  Clever is my middle Type A name.