The roof is all done, at least on the outside. The skylights need the finish carpentry on the inside. Here’s a closeup of the part of the roof over the kitchen that had been leaking on our cookbooks the week before.
Author Archives: deanb
Roofing
We’re getting a new roof put on the house in Casco. The contractor thinks we might have been able to go two or three years more with the old one, but Arlene was a little nervous about it. The edges of lots of the old shingles were starting to curl up, which isn’t good. After …
Labor Day Weekend – Mountain Biking
Matt is an avid mountain biker. He went out on Sunday to the New England Mountain Bike club’s Red Tail Trail in North Conway NH and rode it. He showed me a video of it that he made with his helmet-cam, and it was obvious that I wanted no part of that trail. I did …
Labor Day Weekend – Fish Printing
What we’ve really been wanting to do in fish printing is to print one or more T-shirts with the dye release method. That is, you print your fish on a dark T-shirt using SoftScrub with bleach instead of ink. The idea is to bleach the shirt where you printed and end up with a light …
Labor Day Weekend – Fishing
After all that learning about fish printing from the NPS workshop, we wanted to catch some small fish to print. A couple of sunfish would do, nothing monumental. We went up to the general store in downtown Casco, bought a container of worms, and headed down to Parker Pond. We caught a few fish right …
Labor Day Weekend
We were in Maine with Anne, Matt, and Dozer over Labor Day weekend. There were four main activities: Fishing Fish Printing Mountain Biking Painting the deck. Probably I’ll delete this post when I have a post for each of the four.
Stalker
If that snake had a lawyer, he’d swear out a restraining order against me. Back in May, I think it was, I was walking around Cutler Pond when I saw a guy ahead of me looking intently at the ground near the path. He signaled to me to be quiet and pointed out a good-sized …
Visit with Marie
Arlene has a long-time friend named Marie, another former Newton art teacher, who lives on Deer Isle in Maine most of the time. She was working in Tucson last winter, and maybe she’s there often in the winter. At any rate, it’s pretty close to Bar Harbor — the next big island south of Mount …
Bass Harbor Head Light
On our way home from Bar Harbor we swung all the way around the western lobe of Mount Desert Island (for those of you who’ve never been there, most people pronounce it “de-SERT”, more like “what’s for dessert”, but the film at the visitor center said either way is OK.) We stopped for a brief …
Mostly indexing
I was pretty busy indexing stamp mounts this evening. We got a couple of big orders while we were away, so there’s a backlog of work. I ordered a new can of indexing ink from one of the most talkative 800-number people I’ve ever run into. He asked what I do with the ink and …