20 July 2015

Sonny and Ian arrived at 7 and got right to work shingling, shingling, a shingling they will go.  By noon they had finished the course above the lower windows (that one course took 5 hours to complete) plus three additional courses this afternoon… yielding a full square applied today. As I was doing some computer work in the RV about 9, looked over my shoulder and saw a large doe eating our hosta, which is planted alongside the stone wall close to the campfire pit.  Approached (very quietly) to within 20 feet without spooking her away.  Chree and I sorted shingles in the morning, did some carpentry work down at Kate’s pergola (open topped bench seat structure on her dock) this afternoon, then built a 5 foot tall “table” to extend the Kubota forklift’s reach up to where Sonny and Ian will be working when they’re on the second tier of staging.  Lynne came for lunch, a chance for us to catch up on family news, and a tour. Lunch included some “Delores brownies” that Chree made from scratch using whatever ingredients were on hand and a great deal of imagination.