15 April 2014

Jeffrey Many, sole proprietor of Green Mountain Door, arrived at 8:30 to repair the shed garage door that was damaged last winter when I tried to open it with the door seal frozen to the threshold. Result of that faux pas was a door that only opened 9″ before jamming. Jeff bolted the delaminated door panels back together, then put on new and different top roller brackets, and, just like that, door fixed! Cleaned the accumulated detritus off the wood walkway and saw that, in spite of a particularly deep frost this past winter, the walkway hasn’t moved.  Started raining in earnest, as forecast, just as that job ended.  After lunch, ran errands into Middlebury (diesel fuel for the tractor) and Brandon (Gifford’s Sugarloaf Mint Chip You-Won’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Ice-Cream was calling my name, even though it’s supposed to get down into the 20’s tonight AND snow).  Also stopped into the Brandon Free Library, signed up for a card, and took away 627 pages of Outlander light reading to keep me entertained during non-work hours.  Returned to Fern Lake and, warmly ensconced in dry Dolores comfort, cooked up a large batch of lasagna sauce for forthcoming festivities.