10 June 2012

Finished the first and second courses of shingles on the west wall.  These were the two most time-consuming, as there was a lot of cutting and fitting around both door openings and the ramp.  The other courses should go on much quicker.  Baked and frosted a cake for Alverta’s 88^th birthday.  Unfortunately, the cake did not survive the trips up and down Lynne & Perry’s rather steep and somewhat pot-holey road.  And by “did not survive”, I mean you have never seen a more pitiful excuse for a bakery product than what finally arrived in South Burlington… top layer, fissured into two pieces, completely slid off the bottom layer.  A delicious mess… but a mess nonetheless.  Dinner at Three Green Tomatoes with Steve, Mary, Lynne, Perry, Erin, and, of course, Alverta, with “cake” and Ben & Jerry’s at Alverta’s condo after.  Dropped the Ranger off at Junction Auto as we passed by northbound.  Fed Lynne & Perry’s five cats as I returned southbound.  Driving Perry’s Ranger while mine is in the shop and Lynne, Perry, and Erin are in Washington State this week for Jake’s college graduation.