25 June 2014

As predicted, a totally rainy day, so the Goose stayed away, hopefully in dryer climes.  Went into Middlebury first thing to move Mr. Jonsered from gathering dust at Taylor Rental to, hopefully, having his ailment attended to more promptly at Champlain Valley Equipment.  When I got to Taylor Rental, Chris, the manager, said that my chainsaw would be fixed “today”.  With that assurance, left the saw in his capable hands and returned to Fern Lake.  Two hours later, Chris called to say my saw was ready for pickup.  Guess sometimes the squeaky mouse does get the cheese.  Problem was $50 worth of “crap” in the carburetor, as originally suspected.  Spent the remainder of the day tweaking the house design to accommodate some size differences between the foundation that actually got built and what the architect envisioned.  When working to ¹/₁₆″ tolerances, a garage that is 6″ shorter and 6″ wider than designed causes some major perturbations in the Force.  Fortunately, Sean (as usual) not only had some great ideas about how to fix the resultant design problems, but also suggested some tweaks to window and door placement and sizes to make the exterior appearance of the house much more pleasing to the eye.  Opened a new bottle of JWB mid-afternoon…