4 September 2015

Solo bike ride this morning, seeking the path that “in theory according to Marty” allows one to circumnavigate Fern Lake.  Ended up doing some serious mountain biking (and, no, I don’t ride a mountain bike) and emerged from the woodland trail I was following quite a ways north on the west side of Lake… Dunmore.  Returned to Fern Lake the same way I’d headed out. Chree and I spent most of the day planing and sawing 1x12 hemlock into planks for the sauna ceiling and walls. 'Twas a mite dusty!  Mid-morning Cory Marshall, owner of Marshall’s Alarm Company, came by to talk about the security system we want installed.  Sometime in the afternoon the Goodro’s truck stopped by to deliver another bale of R23 Roxul insulation because somebody hasn’t figured out yet how to compute the square footage of a ceiling and divide that number by the prominently displayed square footage of coverage printed on each bale of insulation.  Late afternoon, Chree and I put Hopea Kanootti in the water for the first time this summer and did us a paddle, stopping for a leisurely chat with Mark and Karen Evans over to their dock across the lake.  New wine-bottle-paper-bag-filled-with- planer-shavings fire starter did not work as theorized.  Does anyone need paper bags for a thousand wine bottles?