27 July 2012

Rained hard on and off all night; awoke to a dreary, damp day, so decided to do some “inside” jobs for the first few hours.  No mice, sober or otherwise, in either trap.  Attempted to repair the bedroom blind, but the string I brought from Virginia for that purpose didn’t work.  Back to the drawing blinds board on that project.  Sharpened the chain (which was seriously abused cutting roots a couple of weeks ago) and did some not-so-periodic maintenance on Mr. Jonsered.  Then spent the balance of the day building the framework for the first turn on the wooden walkway.  Changed the construction design.  Instead of putting in two in-ground posts with an above-ground railing post secured between two stingers, put in one regular in-ground post and then put the railing post into the ground as well, with two stringers tying the two posts together.  The hard part is getting the top of the railing post at the right height, but that’s why they make Sawzalls.  Now that Chree and the dogs are gone, so are the deer flies.  Not many mosquitoes around, either.  Mid-afternoon misplaced my brand new 12′ tape measure.  Looked everywhere and couldn’t find it!  Called Chree and told her I needed a hug, but she had neither my tape nor spirit level (also among the missing).  Found the tape when I sat down in the Ranger; was in my back pocket the whole time...