Day 117: The End Has No Beginning, the Beginning Never Ends*

Winter has hit Cape Breton and the snow is slowing us down. I’d hoped to be finished with shingling by now, but it will take at least one more week. Carla is afraid of heights so, as we climb higher, there’s less and less for her to do, and her dad’s going back to Halifax tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’ve yet to start the plywood cladding on the crow’s nest, or the custom front door, or the cap flashings for the roof parapet, or the handful of other things I can’t remember right now. Listing all of it reminds me that it’s pretty doubtful we’ll finish what we’d like to in the two and a half weeks left before Christmas.

BUT the shingles on the north and east facades are complete and look pretty cool. I love the monolithic quality of the building seen from that corner.

- Geoff

* apologies to Jason Starnes