30 May 2012

Around Lake Dunmore / Fern Lake is exactly 11 miles via the ¼ mile long killer hill on Hooker Road.  Started out by going as fast as I could down Marty & Merry’s (paved) driveway at precisely 8 o’clock.  Met Marty head-on at the blind corner as he was coming up the hill.  Exited stage right in the direction of his ravine yelling, “We’re all gonna die!”  Marty was amused and my cardio-vascular system had an early workout.  After biking, went to Goodro’s to get the woodshed trim lumber that got rained out yesterday.  Check Engine light came on as the Ranger and I were trundling down Route 7.  Just lovely!!!!  Set up to prime and paint the trim pieces outside, as the forecast was for steadily improving weather all day.  Barely got everything moved back into the shed when the first downpour began pouring down.  The mosquitoes were horribly, nastily, awfully bad all day.  Caught several of them inhaling the vapors from the ThermACell lantern and put them on report.  Set up the upslope half of the staging / scaffolding / death with any misstep rig that I’ll use tomorrow to finish the east wall.  Put on half of the next course of shingles, which went much faster since they’re already stained.  Decided to stir-fry the chicken I was going to barbeque tonight, when the campfire got washed out by the second downpour of the day.  Note to culinary experimenters: don’t use cinnamon in a chicken stir-fry in place of soy sauce, even if they do both start with an “ssss” sound.  Finished two bottles of Chrysalis Private Reserve wine, for which my liver thanks you.