Made the arrangements with the roofing guys last July (bright sun, highs in the 80's, hard to remember now) to replace the roof. Reminded them in September when they told me that I was "the next job". Got a bit concerned that they didn't show up in October, and then promptly forgot about it until they magically appeared at the end of last week. Did I mention that it snowed 18" this weekend? Maybe they weren't getting the email alerts from the Weather Channel? Don't know, but since everyone else in the northern hemisphere knew about the first big storm of the season, I have to figure that these guys are so far off the grid, that there is no grid.
I mentioned all of this to Lorraine last Saturday, a friend of mine who owns the Winhall General Store down in the village of Bondville (population 725), about the lack of planning up when literally there's no more time left in the year to do this. She looked at me with great surprise admonishing me that in fact the roofing boys, who she knows very well, had planned this perfectly...
As far as Lorraine was concerned, a perfect example of perfect Vermont planning...
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