Wow, Holloween is getting close... only five days away! Soon it will be November! Remember I told You? Time is flying.....
I'm about shot. I've been about laddered onto the disabled list... a habitual Ibuprofen addict to control the pain. Thank God I go to the Bone and Joint Center in Albany for a shot of Cortisone in each knee on the 28th. Perhaps that will buy me some days without acute pain in, on, about, near or referring to knees!
Yesterday, we were expecting Colleen and JD to show up to help install purlins on the roof so we were ready for the roofing which is supposed to come tomorrow, but they couldn't make it. They started a quick chimney project in the morning, expecting it to take them only a few hours, but by two PM, Colleen saw it wasn't gonna be completed in time to come to our house. Sounds like the simple, cake jobs I start that will only take two.......er......eh.....ten hours to finish, when it's finally said and done. My plans never work out like they are supposed to. Oh well, that's why one day stops....to allow a fresh start the next day. Otherwise a bad day would just never end!
In their absence, our friend Jimmy, showed up and helped us all day long. With his help, we knocked off the porch roof rafters, the batten strips on the back and gable end toward the house and installed all the remaining soffit, fascia and trim. Now it's simply installing the battens on the road side gable end and the front. We decided to not do anything around the window openings until the windows are installed, after the roof is done, then we can trim around the windows and install the battens around window trim then. When darkness stopped us, we put the tools away and took Jimmy to The Hollowbrook Inn Restaurant and Winery for dinner. Upon entering, I noticed a copy of my poetry book displayed on a small table under lights..... Wow, how distinguished it looked there in that setting, in a fine restaurant, with a quaint surrounding of jams and some decorations. We treated Jimmy to a good meal in exchange for his help and are scheduled to help at his house later this week with a wood burner exchange. A "too small" stove out and a bigger one back in and hooked up to replace it so it can produce enough heat for those cold Catskill Mountain winters. Jimmy lives in Hanes Falls, NY. That's pretty much at the top of the ol' mountain!
Today, we will probably work on the batten strips in the front if I'm up to it and if I feel much better... perhaps we'll tackle the gable end batten strips. We'll see. Look below at the progress and you can see, we're pretty close to having her closed up....... Kind of on schedule too.
Yikes, Frost on the windshield...
Steam rising from the Pupskill Bay Lake Pond..........
Here she is....Look at the headway.
The porch ceiling rafters are in place...
Purlins and roofing, with trim...then we can set the door and windows...
Frost on the house roof too.
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