6 May 2018
While taking Shlomo for his morning
constitutional, stopped to say hello to Mike and Pikey Many, father and son
neighbors who formerly were in the roofing business together. They put the standing seam metal roof on the
woodshed back in September 2011, but soon thereafter Mike retired and Pikey
moved on to a comfy indoor job. Even so,
and without too much unseemly begging on my part, they agreed to go back into
business when the barn needs its new metal roof. Using the old Sunday mid-afternoon when
everybody is home ploy, finally got hold of Jim Ploof directly. He will come with his mini-excavator on
Monday or Tuesday this coming week to pull the recalcitrant stump and
associated boulder.