30 November 2015

Sean called at 6:50 to say that there would be no geese at Fern Lake today.  Spent the morning cleaning that part of the basement where additional partition walls need to be built.  Also moved 129 (but who’s counting?) 2x4x16’s from where Chree and I had stacked them (the pile was blocking the area where the east wall of the shop needs to be built) to a spot clear of all anticipated near-term construction.  Spent an hour taking the backhoe and the front end loader off the Kubota.  Definitely need another place (barn????) to store my man-toys… the lower level of the woodshed just ain’t big enough. After lunch, took the stripped-down Kubota up to Champlain Valley Equipment in Middlebury to have the new snow blower installed.  Left the trailer there and continued on to Burlington to do numerous errands, including picking up my laptop at Best Buy (it died just before Thanksgiving and had to be shipped to Missouri for $700-worth of repairs).  On the way back south, stopped at The Residence at Shelburne Bay and enjoyed a longer-than-usual visit and dinner with Alverta.  Got back to Fern Lake just in time for bed…