I challenge anyone to be able to put down The Disposable Man by Archer Mayor, once
begun. Started that book after dinner
last night and, even knowing I had to get up early this morning, didn’t finish
it until midnight. Ack! Set the alarm for 6:30, hoping to at least be
vertical when Kevin Betourney (the roofer) got here at the expected 7
o’clock. He pulled in at 9… In 3 hours, working by himself, he erected
staging around 3 sides of the house. No
staging on the west side because it would interfere with Jimmy Ploof’s anticipated
grading and stone wall building activities next week. I stained another 99
shingles in the morning. That’s the last
batch to be done until next spring; say “Halleluiah!!!!” After lunch, took $8.10 worth of returnable
bottles and cans into Brandon for redemption, then immediately spent that cash
on the two most important food groups: beer and ice cream. When I got back to
Fern Lake, put a bunch more shingles on the west wall of the sauna building. Perry stopped by late afternoon to check on
progress and talk about a shingling job he will be doing next week, for which
he’d like to have his air compressor back.
Good timing, as I’ll be done using it tomorrow.
