When I woke up this morning Rick was already over at the cabin pulling cedar shake shingles off the roof of the cabin. American Disposal and Recycling of Deer River had dropped off the 20-yard dumpster at 7:20 a.m.
Just by luck Rick was already awake. He woke up at 7:00 a.m. but his alarm clock was upside down so he thought it was 10:30 a.m. so he quickly got out of bed.
I had to take care of a number of work calls, and do some writing, so I wasn’t able to go to the cabin to help Rick until mid-afternoon.
We managed to get the shingles off of the roof above the two bedrooms and the road-side dormer of the front porch.
There was some water damage and rot on several a couple of the boards along the edge of the roof that need to be replaced. The cabin, however, was kit that was assembled back in the late 1960s, 1968 to be exact, so finding matching boards will be impossible. Therefore, we took measurements of the boards that needed be replaced and had Johnson Lumber mill some boards of the same dimension.
We pulled the old boards off and had to wait for Johnson Lumber to finish the milling before we could proceed.
The temperature today was in the high 70’s. the wind was around 8-12 mph out of the NW and throughout the day it alternated between being partly sunny to partly cloudy, and it often looked as if it could rain.
This evening Rick and I went trolling. The wind was still out of the NW at 8 mph, the water temperature had warmed to just over 70 degrees and the moon was 77% waxing.
Tonight we caught only one walleye between us, and that was the 17 ¼” fish that Rick boated. It was the perfect fish for us to keep, so it went into the live well and will be dinner tomorrow night.
After a full day of work on the cabin, Rick was tired and went to bed right after we got back from fishing. I stayed up a little while reading, but not very long. We’ve got lots and lots of work to do on the cabin roof in the coming days, so we both will need our rest.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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