Began the day with the pick your own fruit salad.… This is been the best summer I ever ever remember for fruit from the yard

We spent some time working on the basement. We’ve had some serious work done to improve the drainage down there and we’re not yet satisfied, but it’s working. One of the storms that passed through here recently ended up depositing a lot of silt in part of our basement. I was cleaning and vacuuming it up when I came across, a plaque of sorts etched into the poured part of the basement. I knew this part of the house dated from the mid 1970s when the first owner Mel McNeil rescued the building… Here is proof of his handiwork.

 

It was so fun finding that for the first time after living in this house   for 42 years. Last I knoew, Mel was living in New Zealand raising sheep. I’ll try to reach out to him and his family with this blast from the past. 

We did a little other archaeology today. We were preparing for our delivery of wood, and we spent some time leveling the ground and putting up some makeshift platforms to keep the wood off of the ground. We’re using pieces of the old cedar swingset that we bought in 1992. It’s a gift that keeps on giving.… Handling that old wood brought back great memories.

 

Neighbor Carly came over to swim and it reminded me that I still had some leftover liquid nitrogen. So we made LN2 ice cream for the third time. !

I think its getting more delicious as the week goes on !

nite all, noite sam

-me