7 May 2016

Jason was here well before 6 and spent the day (Saturday) painting trim.  Tim arrived a little after 7, while I was putting a second coat of varnish on the closet hanging rods, and he spent a couple of hours mudding the interface between the Ifelele top caps and the half wall railings.  I took the Tacoma down to the Leicester Town Garage to recycle the load of cardboard completely filling the truck’s bed.  George Denton, the recycling person, was not happy to see the present I had brought him, but allowed me to unload with assurance that (1) I was a Leicester resident and (2) this was personal vice contractor waste.  The people waiting in line behind me while I unloaded (and unloaded, and unloaded) also were less than pleased.  It’s a good thing I don’t have a “D0UG” vanity plate on my truck…  George and I had a lengthy, amiable conversation, at the end of which he said I could bring a second load down today.  So I returned to Fern Lake, filled the Tacoma’s bed with cardboard yet again, and returned to the scene of the crime.  After that, I ran errands in Brandon, buying eye bolts at Aubuchon Hardware and making sure the Hannaford grocery store won’t go out of business anytime soon.  Returned once again to Fern Lake, I tried to mount the Wen air filtration system box on the shop ceiling, discovering that the eye bolts I had bought for that purpose were too short.  So another round trip to Brandon ensued.  Air filter installed, leveled, and fully operational, I spent the balance of the afternoon putting up kitchen lights.  The lake level is 14½″ below the top of the dock and the water temperature already is up to an almost-swimmable-if-you-are-hot-enough 57°F.