This tree stood around as some small progress with the little shed on lot 73 was made.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Category: Lot 73
Caveat: Tree #1894 “The cowering Jeep”
This tree was towering over my cowering, ill-used Jeep.
Elmer comes in the store. We are talking about who is native, who is not, among locals on the island, here. You can’t always tell who is “native” – there’s been a lot of mixing over the generations, so it mostly has to do with enrollment in a tribal group, appearance doesn’t always tell you a lot about a person’s status as a native. Anyway, somewhat out of the blue, Elmer says, “You know, Richard Nixon was Tlingit.” I said, “Oh really, how’s that?” Elmer, not missing a beat, says, holds his two hands up in the “double peace sign” and says, “I am NOT a crook.” This, somehow, proves that Nixon was a Tlingit.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1881 “Pre-house”
This tree noted the lack of progress on the little house thingy (I call it the “pre-house”) on Lot 73. I’m not bothered by this – the neighbor who’s doing this project for me has had other jobs that are much higher priority, involving improvements to his own lot. The pre-house will wait.
The reason I call it the pre-house is because the future actual house will be attached to it – at which point, this structure becomes a kind of previously-existing small appendage to the future house.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1853 “The top”
This tree noticed the beginnings of a roof.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #1852 “The north wall”
This tree stood aside as the north wall was added.
[daily log: walking, 5.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1851 “The south wall”
This tree bore silent testimony to the completion of framing for the south wall of the little house thingy on Lot 73.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1848 “The east wall”
This tree bore witness to the raising of the eastern wall to the shed project. This was all Brandt’s work.
I was pretty lazy today. There was some work on the map servers that I tried to do, but even that didn’t really progress as hoped.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1847 “The west wall”
This tree got to watch as neighbor Brandt and I (mostly Brandt) installed the framing for west wall of my shed project over on Lot 73.
After working in the morning, Brandt needed some help lifting that assembled frame of 2 x 6’s – it was quite heavy. We ended up using a come-along.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #1772 “Water over the bridge”
This tree was by the little board-bridge across the stream between lots 74 and 73 (Art’s lot and my lot). The stream was swollen by the inch of rain we got overnight, and it was running over the top of my little bridge.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]