24 June 2015

There’s was a doe foraging around the RV this morning, who I saw for the first time the other day.  We’ll see if this remains part of her territory once the dogs get here next week…  Sonny pulled in at 7, per usual on a sunny day.  Git it?  We started work on the main level windows on the west side of the house, which, because of their exalted elevation, are challenging and not for the feint of height.  The Living Room window was especially tricky because one buck of staging is only 7 feet long and that window is just over 12 feet long.  The Goodro’s truck got here (for the first time) at 8, bringing the 6 x 6 x 20 prefabricated KOMA^® corner trim pieces… which turned out to weigh a ton… well, maybe not literally, but we wouldn’t have gotten them off the truck without the Kubota’s forklift.  Shortly before noon we realized that we were going to run out of 5/4 x 4 KOMA^® and Phenoseal^® caulking before finishing the window trim.  Called Goodro’s and, true to form, the additional material we needed was here in 2½ hours… without them having to make a special trip just for us.  Got the window trim all done and were just transitioning to the corner trim when Jimmy Ploof showed up to drop off BOTH of his large excavators.  Guess it takes some heavy machinery when you’re shoveling $#!^!  Jimmy will be back on Monday to start work… on Kate’s water line and our septic system.  After working in the hot sun most of the afternoon, a couple of brown bottle liquid refreshments and then a plunge off the dock were a perfect end to a productive day.  Ricky Nicklaw, the Leicester Fire Warden, called to give permission for me to burn the brush pile on Friday.