We received an email from Peter last night saying he won’t be able to come for a while. He’s been having trouble with his shoulder, and the doctor says it will take from 4-6 weeks to heal. We wish him well.
Andy says Peter has only a few more days of work to finish his part, but our best guess now is we won’t have radiant heating before spring.
So Andy can go back to working on his woodpile, among other things.
This past week or so he’s been burning wood faster than he’s been chopping it, and it looks like it will be a cold winter. The temperature prediction today is from 10° to 18° F (about -12° to -8° C).
That IS a set back. On the other hand, the wood chopping should keep Andy fit and trim!
Wood chopping is not the only way he keeps fit and trim. He has all sorts of projects up there.
Tell Andy to stop building fires & to chop wood. That will keep him warm & save wood.
BTW the cottage is as Beautiful as ever. Can’t get over the perfection.
We would have preferred the brown to be the shade we picked out (not so reddish), but the quality control of paint colors isn’t that good. We agree that it turned out just fine.
I agree with the comments made, more chopping less need for fire, keep trim/fit…
I think some people in manual trades who do things “constantly” i.e. move certain body parts up/down in constance (?word) way do end up with problems they do not expect. I remember a friend who now has terrible RSI because his job was test something where he was pushing a knob in/out most hours of the day – he paid dearly for that repetitive movement. Maybe your workman lifted things “wrongly” and didn’t think about the damage was sure to claim his shoulder – lets’ hope rest and recuperation will get him back on his “workhorse” real soon and he doesn’t get into the doldrums on the matter…
Peter is a plumber and needs to tighten and loosen things and sometimes needs to use a lot of force — that’s probably what caused the problem. He’s been having trouble with the shoulder for a long time.