I am in the middle of home construction, writing Billy Jingo, and a half dozen other projects. I spent yesterday doing yard work, cutting tree limbs and trees, clearing out an old garden, and in the midst of that the delivery truck showed up with all of the building materials I ordered and, of course,…
It is a beautiful day here in Siberia. The permafrost is melting, the long frozen woolly mammoths are pushing up through the earth… Okay, so it’s upstate New York and there are no woolly mammoths at all, but it truly does feel like the awakening after a deep freeze. It has been a rough winter….
Happy Saturday. I spent my day doing the last compound coats on the new drywall, and then trimming out all the new windows. The day before I finished the kitchen and then painted the walls there. Tomorrow (Monday) I will paint the balance of the new work and then I will spend the next several…