24 May 2013

A TOTALLY cold, rainy, nasty day.  Winter jacket weather, again.  Did better today, though I see a pattern emerging: there was a second “4” next the one on the far left side of the digital clock display when I first awoke.  Groan!!!!  But refer back to the first sentence… and you’ll understand how I had no trouble lying abed until 7 o’clock.  Went into Green Mountain Electric Supply to pick up materials not available at Lowe’s yesterday.  Discovered, to my complete surprise, that Green Mountain’s price per foot for 8 AWG wire is 30% lower than Lowe’s, even taking into account the military discount I get at the latter emporium. Fiddled around with my recent electrical acquisitions for the remainder of the morning.  After lunch drove down to Gagnon’s Lumber Mill in Pittsford to see what kind of price I could get there for a 29″ diameter hemlock whose top blew off (into Marty & Merry’s yard) last winter.  What’s still standing is worth between $60 – $100 delivered to the mill.  But do we want to have Toby Rheaume come in again with his portable sawmill and make boards for use in the dock building???? Things to ponder while not sleeping in the middle of the night.  Returned from Pittsford and, having procrastinated long enough, went back to work on the man cave ceiling.  Got about half the alterations done, mostly using my rock hammer because the new pneumatic needle gun crapped out (that’s a technical term that means it stopped working properly) after only a few minutes use today. I probably should have known that a product made in China named “Welbuilt” probably isn’t.