25 May 2015

The weather forecast was for a 40% chance of rain showers.  We had rain showers for 40% of the day.  Too bad, as Marty and I had planned our own version of rolling thunder to celebrate Memorial Day...  them beans were good last night! Spent the morning taking apart the shingle drying clothesline contraption, putting the 5-fold purchase (technical name for the block and tackle that Gene Zukosky gave me several years ago) back together, then making more sawdust a ramp which, along with the 5-fold purchase, I hope will persuade my monster wood planer to mount the Tacoma bed.  After lunch, took apart all the framing we installed last summer when we decided to make the two Guest Bedroom windows smaller.  Since I then ordered the originally planned windows by mistake, the rough openings had to be restored to their original sizes.  Even though the framing was mostly screwed together, not all the screws were accessible from inside the basement, so the Sawzall and a large beating iron had to be used on some of the more obstinate pieces.  Very therapeutic, destroying part of the house before it’s even complete.