[at-l] Hiker Happening at Casa del Shoe

[atrailhiker at adelphia.net (Marsha)]

Jan-
This should tell you what a beautiful person you are.
Marsha

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Leitschuh" <janl2@mindspring.com>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Cc: "cjmassey" <cjmassey@mindspring.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:13 AM
Subject: [at-l] Hiker Happening at Casa del Shoe


>
> What started out as a helpful assist in buying matierials for a shed 
> lean-to turned into a genuine "happening," yesterday - and what happened 
> happened thanks to hiker buddies.
>
> Good old buddy and AT-L list lurker Chief volunteered his truck to help 
> get the materials froms Lowes. Of course he had to supervise to make sure 
> I didn't scratch anything.
>
> Then George Tinman Andrews happened to have that Wednesday off too and 
> could swing by in the morning on his way to other projects. Before you 
> could say ShedRuck, the coffee pot was on and these two guys were in the 
> kitchen at Casa del Shoe telling lies and discussing construction details.
>
> George also showed up with a pecan tree he had planted, and the gift of a 
> japanese maple he'd resuced from the Mama Maple at the historic Old 
> Courthouse in Wilmington, NC. "You can have these," he said. "But I need 
> the tubs before I leave at 1pm."
>
> And my god, tubs they were! These were BATHUB planters. I think George did 
> this deliberately to get me out of their hair. Digging shallow wells took 
> me awhile, and when I returned to get an assist on moving the the monster 
> plants to the holes, Chief and Tinman already had the rafters starting up.
>
> At a lunch of ribeyes and apricot pie, Chief then called Clyde Dodge to 
> get a few "construction tips."
> "Green side up," said Clyde, in case they were wanting to lay sod too.
> Clyde said he was DEconstructing, tearing out a wall in Florida for 
> bananna bread, and he was hoping it would be GOOD banana bread!
>
> After straightening out the grunts, Clyde hung up and the project got 
> underway again, this time with me in place of George. It was fun learning 
> to built styff, although the nail gun is intimidatingly ear-splitting, and 
> Chief kept dropping stuff on my head. "Watch out for that square," he said 
> as I stood there rubbing my head and glaring up at him.
>
> We slid the last piece if tin on the roof at 5:15 pm, and by 5:30 I had 
> the prettiest lean-to this side of the AT.
>
> I plan to have a small deck-ruck here at casa Del Shoe sometime when the 
> weather is soft and the moon is full, and when there are no projects. 
> It''s friends that make a place come alive.
>
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