Helperson

Scribbling and rotating the drawing pad eventually landed me with this image. I had Sammy come down and help out fitting the windows today. As you will have seen in the past couple of pictures there is a sandwich arrangement. The first slice of bread to go up was the one shown here, the thick sheet of plywood on the picture from Friday. That is screwed to battens fastened to the pillars and faces the lake to the south. Then we screwed the windows or the metaphorical cheese and lettuce in their proper positions and added more bread. Sammy has one piece of sandwich filling in his lap ready to hold it up in position. Of course as a sandwich this would be useless because the bread has holes cut into it and everything would fall out. Perhaps a new form of semi open sandwich that is designed to artistically frame the tasty contents would be the more correct, but overly complex metaphor.
Once we had got things battened down and unloaded the tools and whatnot at the site we popped off to get some of those branches I mentioned we were after. The rain began to pour just as we were putting the cover tarp back on the truck after unloading that, so I resigned to the sofa for a kip while the dusk drew down.

Incidentally, it was good to have everything ready to go up as it made the sudden appearance of the window more dramatic and my clients were all smiles. Also good to have a Helpy Helperson on hand, which is what kids are for.