Beaver Haven:

I finally sent off the letter to Editor this afternoon after removing the diatribe about the ridiculous wording, or lack of, of the notice of this Public Open House. R's paragraph about what could happen was awesome. Crushed aggregate quarry- NOT in my front yard!

Other than that, I just talked to a few people and took info re hippy van to auto insurance guy so he can start working on that as well. Prognosis is that parts will take a week to arrive so it will be a while longer.

Now, I am concerned that we have removed those closets and that is a "renovation" that we probably should have gotten a permit to do. I may have to throw myself on the mercy of the building inspector and get help applying for a permit for the windows we need to install and rebuilding the garden shed. I have no idea how this operates. Down at the mill we got a permit good for a year for whatever we do - for $30! Here it costs $150 plus a percentage of what a contractor would charge for the job. We have no idea how long we will need to do things with R having so little time to be here. And we really do not want the building inspector anywhere near our house. Between us, we know as much or more about buildings than the average building inspector. Also do not want a $300 fine. Life is fraught with hazard.

I pulled some weeds, planted a couple more geraniums in their pots, staked the HUGE comfrey plant. I found that geraniums do best if root bound so leave them in pots in the ground. May dig up a small comfrey and take it to Market to sell or give. We have two huge ones which I will divide at appropriate time. I am the point of feeling like washing the windows, clearing the one garden area and throwing some pots - tomorrow. Maybe even putting up a screen tent. Still cool in the house but warm on the deck most of the day. Tonight it is warm enough not to have a fire in the stove.