10 July 2012

With pickax and shovel, dug about 30 feet (out of the 70 total) of the six inch deep trench in which the low voltage electric line will run (inside ½″ PVC Schedule 40 conduit) from the power panel to the start of the wooden walkway.  Rocks and roots in profusion, the other story of my life!  Chree installed the first few lengths of longitudinals, at which point we discovered that the RTB22 connectors were horribly out of position on the stringers.  I’d blame Shlomo, except I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know how to use a tape measure.  Apparently neither do I!  Problem corrected, was time to run errands in Middlebury (water from Lynne & Perry’s, more construction “stuff” from Goodro’s and Martin’s, Ben & Jerry’s and other victuals from Hannafords) plus attend a Festival on the Green performance by Waldo & Woodhead – Masters of Mayhem.  Waldo was a pretty decent juggler.  Woodhead’s slapstick certainly appealed to the five- and six-year olds in the audience.  Altogether a moderately enjoyable hour NOT spent banging a pickax against rocks and roots.