12 July 2015

Hot day!  At noon had to turn on Delores’ air conditioning for the dogs… not that Shlomo spent all that much time inside.  Also the mosquitoes are H∙O∙R∙R∙I∙B∙L∙E!!!! Finished putting together the telephone and TV conduit, backfilled the trench (by hand!) until the conduits were buried in sand / small gravel deep enough to put down the red Caution: Buried Electrical Line Below tape and deep enough so that any boulders that got pushed into the trench wouldn’t harm the pipes. Then finished the backfilling job with the Kubota.  Used a scrap piece of Zip System sheathing to make a shingle sorting template, then sorted by size the contents of three boxes of the shingles.  First impression is that Maibec has sent along a consistently superior product... which, given the price they charged, is only to be expected.  I find that having the shingles pre-sorted greatly speeds up the process of putting them on the walls.  Or maybe I’m just a die-hard Type A…  Any who, each box, in theory, covers 25 square feet with a nominal 5″ exposure, so four boxes = 1 square.  According to my calculations (and at this point we all know how reliable those are), the house will need 19 squares of shingles.  Update at 11… or sometime next month.  Five o’clock swim was refreshing for all three of us.  Apparently I was so dehydrated that half a G&T went straight to my head.  Oh, dear, what am I going to do with the other half?!?!  After sending me 5 text messages and calling me twice with no answer, Kate came over after dinner to verify that I was still alive.  Guess Verizon’s signal is having a hard time penetrating through the mass of mosquitoes outside.