Another Dog?

Yesterday, we had a call from friend Bill.  Someone apparently dropped off a dog at his house.  It was hiding under a carriage in a shed.  Pam grabbed Ruby (the world's smartest pit bull) and headed over there, but on her way out the door I shouted "DON'T BRING ANOTHER DOG HOME!!!"

So fifteen minutes later, she came in with a small pit bull that had apparently recently had puppies.

The poor girl was scared.  Pam put her upstairs in our bedroom and shut the door to keep our other three dogs from overwhelming her.  After an hour or so, Pam got her out.  She had her head down and her tail tucked between her legs as she was inspected by our dogs.  Pam fed and watered her.

I posted a "found dog" post on Facebook, which has been shared by our friends many times over, but no luck yet finding the owner, whom I'm guessing doesn't want her anyway.  Bill's house, is very remote, so the chance of her wandering there on her own is pretty slim.

The Mayfield dog warden thought she may have a lead on the owner, but so far no call.  The Bleecker dog warden doesn't have any report of a missing pit bull.  So if we don't find the owner soon, it looks like Lilly (she was found on Lilly Lake Road) will be traveling to Florida.

Thankfully, she's a very sweet dog.  Very affectionate and full of kisses just like our pit bulls.  Sadly though, her toenails are painted purple.   Some little girl somewhere is probably crying her eyes out.

First Snow

Man, I've got to button up this pump house and we need to get on the road to Florida!  It snowed on and off all day today.

But I still managed to get most of a second wall done.  Tomorrow another.

Closing in on the Pump House...

Closing in.  Closing.  See what I did there?  HAHAHAHAHAHA!

One wall almost done, three + more to go.  But it is going to be COLD here for the next few days!  Highs in the low 40s.  I'll bundle up and do the best I can.  I need to get this buttoned up.

Finished the Pump house Roof Panels

It is always satisfying for me to finish a project, or even a milestone in a project.  Today, I put up the last two roof panels for the pump house.

Those of you who came here from my Driftaway blog will recognize a victory beer when you see one.

And then, being on a roll, I finished the wall studs.  All I have left is the door framing.  Easy peasy.

I still have to put the roof cap on, but I didn't have any screws for that.  Friend Bill will pick those up today for me.  Ridge cap, walls, and done for this year.

The Sasquatch Stump

From Pamela:

Who can spot the differences? I left the stump where my sasquatch shares things with me..... my "dragonfly" mark on the right, my own "A" made from two red leaf stems and a small stick on the left, my dragonfly earring lying next to the "A" lying face up and flat and a cattail across the center of the stump.

 This morning it was all rearranged. Hmmm. smile emoticon I like playing stump chess with my hairy friend. I just wish I could figure out what the "A" symbol means to them.

Pamela also decided to check out a stump where an Ohio researcher left five coins on a stump deep in the woods.  This is how it was left, the "before" photo.

 

This is the "after" photo.

One thing we learned about Sasquatch is that they share.  If you leave it two apple halves, it will take one and leave one for you.  If it kills a squirrel, it will eat half and leave the other half by Pam's Miata.

Chinese Sasquatch?

The other day, we found this outside our Unabomber cabin's window.

Pam has found many of those, always in the general shape of the letter "A".  Not knowing what they mean, we figured it might be some kind of signature, or calling card.   So Pam decided to design her own and made a kind of dragonfly on her Sasquatch stump.  She also left some puffballs, which was a waste of time, it turned out.

Last night, she went out to check the stump.  She came running back to the cabin.  I was inside on my laptop, no doubt saving the world on Facebook, when she came running by.  I immediately sprang into action and looked to see if she was being chased by anything.  Nope.  But she came flying into the cabin....

"David!  Come and see this!!"

"OK.  Should I bring my camera?"

"YES!"

So I did.  What I found was this.

The sticks were rearranged into the familiar letter "A" shape.  Huh.  Me, being me, decided to peruse Al Gore's internets for some meaning.

Sasquatch are thought to have crossed the land bridge from Asia to North America many thousands of years ago, just like Native Americans, so I decided to review Chinese symbols.  I found this page -  http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html

If you look at number six, you'll see that the inverted V ahape means "man".

Scroll down to number 13.  The letter "A" shape means "big".

Huh.  See the little twig placed on the left leg of the A?  Yep.  Now scroll down to number 197.  That means "great".

You've now got it.  Great big man.  OK then.

Nailing up Nailers

I don't know if "nailers" is the right term.  We put up the horizontal boards that the metal roof will be screwed onto, so I guess maybe they're "screwers".

My hammering arm gave out so Pamela took over.  And a fine job she did.

Andy pointed his horns at Ruby, which she does not like.

The last nailer!

Maybe tomorrow, the roof!