minimal progress--but progress nonetheless

Last Saturday, Jeff Valder and I cleaned up a lot of the "construction mess": We cut up all the pallets that weren't being used, and the scrap lumber that wasn't re-usable. So now there's lots of kiln dried fire wood next to our fire ring, much to my brother Paul's chagrin. It won't be there long, at the rate we burn wood! Sunday, Alisanne and I figured out how to put up the back support beam for the loft, so now we can rock and roll. The weather has been miserable--HOT and HUMID. But at least we can work in it--unlike the torrential rain we had early on, when we were still outside. Anyways--excelsior! (see Longfellow and Whitman . . . )