24 August 2012

Did errands with / for Alverta in Burlington all morning.  Returned to Fern Lake at 2:30 and promptly got back to work on the walkway took a nap. Awhile later, somewhat refreshed, dug the last hole for and buried the remaining two in-ground posts needed to support the third landing.  Was admiring my handiwork and doing a last measurement check when I realized that all of the posts are in the wrong place due to very poor prior planning on the part of this Perkins. Shortly thereafter, while in the lake soothing my bruised foot and the footprint-shaped bruise on my butt, Chree called to let me know about her day in the emergency room caused by a cute little black doggie, name of Shlomo, over whom she tripped while walking said doggie this morning.  When retrieving a bottle of wine for dinner from the man cave, found a pile of “sawdust” on the shed footer right under one of the oak beams… a beam that I treated especially thoroughly with the BoraCare spray.  On a positive note, dinner at Marty & Merry’s was delicious as always… and somehow my wine glass was never empty after regaling them with tales of the goings on over the last 24 hours. After dark we all came up the hill to admire the walkway all lit up.  In spite of the rocky, root-infested terrain and elevated BAC, none of us ended up in an emergency room…