2 October 2014

Another glorious shirt-sleeve fall day.  Acorns are dropping like rain and the leaves are starting to show some good color.  Kevin and Brian arrived at 8, having already spent an hour bending metal into drip edges and hip caps.  After maneuvering their portable shop (big trailer) into position, Brian started putting on the house roof’s drip edges while Kevin went off to another job site for a few hours.  They worked until mid-afternoon, getting on all but the west side drip edges and most of the hip caps.  Meanwhile, down at the sauna building, I put on shingles until I didn’t have (in a stained condition) the next two of the size I needed.  Then I brought tools and materials up the hill from that work area, starting the process of securing the property for winter.  Rough calculations: I’ll need to stain and put up another 450 shingles (roughly ¾ square, which will use about 1½ gallons of stain and 950 staples) to complete the sauna building siding… which should take me around a week to do next spring.