12 September 2014

Fall fell overnight… was sweatshirt weather today.  Knowing that Perry was going to be late arriving this morning, didn’t roll out of bed until 7:45… guess I must have been tired.  Brian showed up at 8 (a true Vermonter, he was dressed in t-shirt and shorts) to put Grace Ice & Water Shield^® and Roofguard II^® underlayment on the house and sauna building roofs. By the time I finished getting ready to face the day, picked up some of the waste from Brian’s endeavors (stuffing the backing paper from the ice & water shield back into the box the roll comes in), and put the handles on the sauna’s pocket door, Perry pulled in. We installed the pocket door, then put the sauna stove exactly where I wanted it and shimmed the gravestones so that the stove sits on them solidly and reasonably level.  That done, we cut an elliptical hole in the roof directly above the stove’s flue pipe attachment point. Then we installed the 10″ x 10″ square metal sleeve that protects the ceiling joists and attic insulation from the chimney’s heat and supports the weight of the insulated metal chimney.  Finally, we put together the insulated metal chimney pipe and then fabricated metal brackets to brace that pipe where it goes through the roof sheathing.  That done, Perry packed up all the rest of his tools and departed for greener pastures.  Once Brian finished the sauna and we had picked up the rest of the roofing activity detritus, we kicked back for a well-deserved malt beverage, whereupon I noticed my cell phone was (once again) missing in action.  As soon as Brian left, went searching for the phone. While making increasingly frantic sweeps between the woodshed and the sauna building, Tammy arrived over at Kate’s to check on work Nate has been doing there this week.  Went over to say hello and ask her to call my cell phone.  She did, three times, with nothing heard anywhere I was working this afternoon.  Meanwhile, over at the Kevin’s Roofing shop (only a couple of miles away, just on the other side of Fern Lake), Brian was just throwing the last ice & water shield box into the dumpster when the box started ringing!  Brian very kindly brought the box back over here where, sure enough, we found the phone, still in its carrying case, mixed in with the backing paper stuffed into the box.  Whew!