18 August 2015

Arose before dawn to get Delores ready for her week in the shop, where she’s to have some old age related aches and pains made all better.  Plus it’s time for her annual physical (Vermont State Inspection).  Just after Sonny and Ian arrived at 7, Delores and I trundled down to Green Mountain Garage in Brandon, where we found that Mike, ace mechanic and RV guru, has recently retired.  Rats!!!!  Marty picked me up there and took me back to Fern Lake, where I bid au revoir to the shingling geese and headed south in the fully-loaded Tacoma.  Sonny called mid-afternoon to say that the house shingling would be done by the end of work today… as presciently predicted by the Fern Lake Oracle (see the blog posting for 14 July).  Even though I had to take a somewhat circuitous route between Baltimore and Washington to avoid several accidents and rush hour congestion, made it back to Springfield in nine hours.  Chree greeted me with a glass of JW Double Black.  That would be one of the reasons we’ve been married for 43 years!