Another beautiful and productive and FUN (aching muscles included) day in Lenoir. The first photo shows the “front porch” crew. If you look closely you might suspect that someone was not especially competent with a tape measure when it came to determining the length of the posts. However, it turns out folks here don’t run them all the way to the roof, just cut them off at rail level.
Janet (who’s in the next photo and from West Virginia) and Patty (from New York and not in the photo) were the crew putting in anti-squeak bracing (there’s probably a more technical term but who cares?) It turns out Janet’s arm held out longer than Patty’s, so Mary (from New Hampshire) stepped in to help finish the job.
Of course the highlight of the week has been Carol (from Georgia) teaching all of us how to peel a banana. Demonstrating in the last the photo is Bert (from New Hampshire sitting next to his wife Mary also from New Hampshire and a member of the anti-squeak crew). Anyway, you do NOT start peeling a banana from the stem end – you start from the blossom end. The peel is much more tender on that end and, as it turns out, a much easier way to start peeling a banana. Supposedly monkeys do it that way and they have a LOT more experience than most humans. Can’t wait to try it, can you?!
Another beautiful and productive and FUN (aching muscles included) day in Lenoir. The first photo shows the “front porch” crew. If you look closely you might suspect that someone was not especially competent with a tape measure when it came to determining the length of the posts. However, it turns out folks here don’t run them all the way to the roof, just cut them off at rail level. 
Janet (who’s in the next photo and from West Virginia) and Patty (from New York and not in the photo) were the crew putting in anti-squeak bracing (there’s probably a more technical term but who cares?) It turns out Janet’s arm held out longer than Patty’s, so Mary (from New Hampshire) stepped in to help finish the job.
Of course the highlight of the week has been Carol (from Georgia) teaching all of us how to peel a banana. Demonstrating in the last the photo is Bert (from New Hampshire sitting next to his wife Mary also from New Hampshire and a member of the anti-squeak crew). Anyway, you do NOT start peeling a banana from the stem end – you start from the blossom end. The peel is much more tender on that end and, as it turns out, a much easier way to start peeling a banana. Supposedly monkeys do it that way and they have a LOT more experience than most humans. Can’t wait to try it, can you?!
