Moon

 Here's a dramatic ends to the month! Rain, rain, and damp so pervasive that the house filled with mildew. What a summer!

Lightning Strikes...

 I was in the kitchen doing what I usually do during an electrical storm: counting the seconds between the flash and the BANG! Five seconds to the mile. I counted to eight, then five, then CRASH! Thunder roared before I could count at all. I let out quite a squeak. It hit, we found later, at tree just across from the kitchen window. 

Pieces were blown out of the trunk and scattered about the yard. Later, we found various devices no longer worked: the dryer, the television, the computer that drove the television, Jo's metal detector (perhaps unrelated).

Mr. Knife

 This is easily the most over-engineered utility knife (and scraper) I have ever acquired.

Yes, of course I love it. How can you ask?

Shedding Light

Fiat lux! I started wiring up the lights last October--I finally finished. Just a bit of shingling on the North face, and the 25-year woodshed project will be complete!

All Hands on Deck

 I think we built the first section shortly after finishing the work on the rear foundation--so, 17-20 years ago. The tar really did its job, and because I used deck screws and not air nails, it is all quite modular. Pop out the screws and lay down new wood--simple! I did have to splint a place where two plates connected, taking about 18" out of each and putting a new section of joist between them, as well as several 5/8" bolts. All back together again--and if it lasts another 20 years, rebuilding will be someone else's problem!

The Doors

 

The left door is nearly finished (a pity the right-hand one is getting bubbly!). Still working on the spring tension, but I will manage it in time, I think. I have discovered that I can still buy cylinders for the external locks--I'll fit one this weekend.

Trenchant!

 I finally dug the ditch to lay drainage pipe for the workshop sump pump. While not as long deferred as the woodshed foundation (some twenty-five years after we built the shed!), it has taken a while. I made the first shallow incisions a couple of weeks ago, and then dug it out thoroughly on the holiday Monday.