August 19, 2012 -- At Leech Lake

I must have been very tired from staining yesterday because I slept in much later than usual; and Joe slept in even later.

The weather this morning was sunny, blue skies with a temperature of 64 degrees. The high today is supposed to be 72 degrees. The wind was out of the north at 8-15 mph, and while there were no white caps, there were some decent-sized rolling waves; typical for Leech Lake.

I started in on staining the house at noon, and Joe joined me about 90 minutes later. We worked straight through until 5:30 p.m. and completed staining the house. Technically there are still some sections we need to stain, but those will require one of us, or both, getting up on the roof in order to reach some of the cedar panels that are tucked up high under certain sections of the roof. We'll get to those tomorrow.

But for the most part, the staining of the house is complete.

Just before 7:00 p.m. John Newman stopped by for dinner and joined us for BBQ pulled-pork sandwiches, Cole slaw, sweet corn and French fries. It was tasty, and fairly typical, summertime meal at the lake. We then hung out for a couple of hours talking, listening to old Steve Martin comedy LPs and enjoying each other's company.

When John went home shortly after 10:00 p.m., Joe and I watched a little TV (actually DVDs) and then called it a night.

Tomorrow I want to finish the staining of the panels on the roof so we can cross that off our list. We'll then be able to spend some time doing a thorough cleaning of the house, and do some fishing, before we start staining the decks.

Good night.