Super busy day.. one interesting interlude… You may remember that a couple of weeks ago a bat (we think) flew through one of the front windows of our house and broke it. The bat muust have made it through ok .. as there was no sign of it. Unfortunately , the window was in onfe of the big windows over the door of our house.. impossible to reach by ladder from the front of the house . T
I was able to reach the broken glass form the inside by climbing to the tippy top of a 10 foot ladder. From there I was able to clean out the broken glass and remove the old putty. The catch is, you cant really replace a pne of glass from the inside. I spoent soem time thinkign of makeshift ways to seal the window for the winter.. everythign from cardboard and tape to a piece of polycarbonate that I could feed through the windo, then pull into the frame with cls.. but there was no other way to set a real peice of glass than to reach it from the outside.
I tried all sorts of ladder configuratiosn from the front step.. but the window was just too high up.. and it was over the sloped awning over the front door which was too steep to stand on.. and probably wouldnt hold my weight
we thought of all sorts of alternatives.. everything from buying scaffolding to rapellign down the house from teh tower..
but today I had a brainstorm. We had some folks from a tree company coming by to trim the cedars next to Duxbury Road as well as to see what they could do to try to save the locusts in front of our yard. They are both getting quite old and are starting to split.… We’re hoping to get a couple more years out of them.
The tree guys came and I asked them if for a small bribe, they would let me use their bucket loader, which was really the only way to reach the broken window. Luckily, they agreed and in 20 minutes I was able to put on a harness, get up on the lift with one of the tree guys and place the window and put it.… I’ve gotten pretty fast at doing that considering there’s almost 500 panes of glass in this house.
Igot down .. and the guys worked on saving our trees.. whixh Ithink they were able to do
fun way to spend the morning.
Nite all, nite sam
-me