Mike and Pikey showed up mid-morning and quickly
rigged a 2x4 ramp from the roof edge up which the cupola can slide to its
foundation at the roof peak. The plan
was to hoist the cupola as high as the Kubota’s folks will go, lift the cupola
onto the staging, pick the cupola up over the roof edge, then slide the beast
up the ramp to the roof peak. Great
plan! Only problem is that it started
snowing (yes, s∙n∙o∙w∙i∙n∙g) in the midst of getting ready, making the roof
much too hazardous to be working on.