16 June 2015

Houston, the geese have landed!  Was expecting them at 8; Ian Birkett and Ralph “Sonny” Torrey showed up at 6:55, with Sean following shortly thereafter.  The Fyles Brothers truck arrived at 8:15 to give Delores a 15 gallon drink of propane.  Just as the fuel truck was leaving, Tyler Maynard arrived to stake out the leach field location.  We were able to finagle the placement enough that several large trees can remain in that area and still meet the leach field setback requirements.  In case you were wondering (or even if you weren’t) if trees are too close to the leach field, they get an unfair nutrient advantage, so to keep things fair, the State has mandated that all trees be back a minimum of 10 feet.  And if you believe that one,…  Ian and Sonny cut holes in the exterior wall sheathing while I ran to Goodro’s for materials needed to install the windows.  Then the two Geese started putting in windows while I did cleanup work behind them and moved the wood blocking material stored in the garage (right in the way of where the garage windows are going) down to the basement Shop (so that lumber can be right in the way when we start building interior walls down there).  Shortly after lunch it started to pour, so Ian and Sonny transitioned to tweaking the installation of the Garage and Shop people doors that were not installed properly last fall (by a Goose who has since flown to other skies).  In the course of that endeavor, discovered that the Kwikset latch mechanism on the Shop door had a manufacturing defect, so I replaced the faulty part from a set recently purchased for the front door.  By 2 o’clock it was looking like the rain was going to be around for awhile (finally quit at 3:30), so the Geese left, having installed the two Study windows, the Laundry window, and half of the Master Bath window.  Thereupon I finished preparations for the evening’s festivities, i.e., gave Delores a good scrubbing.  Marty & Merry came up for a spaghetti dinner, topped off with some fabulous raspberry bars… the products of yesterday’s culinary extravaganza.