Oy.. my laptop is really hosed. It won’t boot up no matter what I try… . I think it has a motherboard problem.. and I have a super busy week coming up. I’m going to be working from Linux for a while..(I am now)  I like it better anyway .
    I may not have have gotten Windows working on my computer..   But.. I still had to  work on our windows.. Diane, Gabe and I mounted the exterior storm widows this afternoon.  A major ritual of the changing seasons. We usually wait until a freezing cold rainy day in late November to do this.. but today was exceptionally nice and warm.. in the 50’s and sunny.   I have to admit I sort of enjoy the job.. I know i’s been going on for this building for at least 100 years.. first you dig your way to the storms hidden behind mountains of summer time stuff in the front closet. The closet used to bye a bathroom for the school.. then it was like a little jail cell.. Our friend skip remembers being locked in there by his teacher… our fried Janet.. in the late 50’s.. She says it never happened.. and I tend to believe her.
   Anyway..once you’ve reached the windows you have to drag them outside  It’s not that bad.. but they’re more than 7 feet hig and 3 and a half feet wide.. and heavy as heck…

Once they’re outside you need to wash off the last winters’ grime.. then comes the task of matching the window to it’s frame.. which goes where.. yo would thing with n28 years of practice, we’d have developed some sort of fail proof marking system.. but somehow.. every year it’s the same old guessing game.. there are so many old labeling systems on each window.. with  some of them telling contradictory stories.. that it’s usually a guessing game for the last couple.. It’s all part of the fun..

Some of the windows have been modified over the years to fit the weird nooks and cranny’s fo the window frames.. that makes them easier to match.. and gives them more character.

There sre about five differnt fastening systems for the windows.. another fun challenge when you fill your pockets with tools.. Here’s one of the ‘new’ turnbuckles.. these I like

Many hands makes light work.. with three of us working the whole job took less than an hour…   I remember spending 4 hours or more in the early days of owning this lace..

I was up on a ladder today as diane held one of the windows.. one of

the toughest to put in.. when I saw a Sam butto wedge inside the window

.I hae a vaque memory of our friends putting them up in the days after

sam’s passing.. I remember trying to help.. but not being very uselful..   Our freinds are so wonderful to us.

Ahhhhh. done.. the house is now warm.. and .. so quiet.  the double panes block out so much more of the outside noise…

Here’s a statistic for you.. during winter, our house has 508 individual panes of glass in its windows.. not counting the barn.. 508.. incredble !

WIn addition to getting the windows up today, we cleaned the garage so the cars can get in, remoutned some of the themral shades , reversed and cleaned the ceiling fans so we’re all ready for winter… which is why it’s goign to be in the 60’s tomorrow.. We’re goign to roast ! 🙂

    We did stop and have some fun today.. Gabe d a dry land practice for MMMSC at Burton today.. they had one ral set up with trucked in snow.. I missed that.. but I did get there for the skateboard work.. First they warmed up on the half pipe.. then Gabe worked the bowl for the first time.. in 10 minutes he got it.. and was getting good !

OK.. not much else to report… I think I’ll go work on the movie Gabe and I are making about engineering…   Talk to you all tomorrow.. Nite all.. Nite Sam
-me