27 August 2015

Just as Marty and I were ready to depart on our (regular?) morning bike ride, the Goodro Lumber truck arrived to take away materials leftover from the shingling extravaganza. Marty and I did the 10 mile loop up to Kampersville and back, again without mishap, though I discovered some sore buns when first getting seated.  As soon as I got changed into work clothes after returning to Fern Lake, Jeffrey Many arrived to adjust one of the house garage doors that was not latching properly.  Right after Jeff left I went down to Marty’s to help him install a new radar detector in his car, the directions for which were somewhat less than clear.  Back up the hill after that job and Sean arrived, bringing me his not-small bill for the shingling work.  We did a final walk-through / project review until the geese return in late November. He says that Ashley (his wife), having seen the blog pictures of our house, now wants cedar shingles on her house.  Sonny and Ian are probably beside themselves… racing to Quebec to either seek insane asylum or burn down the Maibec shingle production plant.  In between all the comings and goings, I hyper-chlorinated Delores’ water system again, which, judging from the effluent that emerged afterwards, was sorely needed. Then it was lunch time!  After slurping down some calories, got to work moving all of the rough-cut hemlock boards from the woodshed down to the shop, ready for a trip through the planer.  Found a huge carpenter ant nest and thousands of dead ants in amongst the boards.  The good news is that the bi-monthly Orkin treatments seem to be working.  The bad news…