has been a slow-motion project for two reasons:
it was difficult to find someone to apply flexible roofing
(conical, curves, and rubberized materials),
and I had to wait for a doctor to sharpen his meat saw
in order to replace my hip with scrap parts.
Now, both projects have been done,
and I am easing myself toward real work, again.
There is a small boy, one of whose virtues is
that he keeps getting in the way of other kinds
of serious work, who has been complaining lately
that the round window he likes to look through
is too high off the ground. That is important,
because it is from that window that he is able to see
mountains all around, which reminds him (somehow)
that the earth goes around the sun, so he says so, every time.
That is why, today, I bought a couple of pre-cut porch stringers,
and cut a scrap piece of pine board to make treads and,
in the best tradition of fine craftsmanship, made a bannister
from an old wooden paint roller handle.
All of this for a temporary ascent to a window
through which one can see the whole world,
and mountains all around, and be reminded that
the earth goes around the sun, every time!
Ah, well! There are only two screws holding it in place,
and I have a cordless impact drill charged up and ready to go!
All of this, of course, is for a grandson
who has not yet seen how many steps it is
to get up to where you can see the curvature
of the whole earth, and by the time he does see it
he may very well be into sub-atomic particle physics,
which will involve drilling down through the floor
to where the quarks and quaking aspen are.
The doctor who operated on my hip
had a very easy job. And he got paid.
But I will bet I have more fun!
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