> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ilene R. Tyler
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: production
> 
> 
> Ken, what I know is that our carriage house foundation is not 
> going to be done before winter.  There is a lot of thinking 
> going on, and no one likes digging the trench.  

> Today temperatures are in the 40s and 
> rain is in the forecast.  Help!!!

I feel your pain. Excerpted here are four haiku from my Rehabilitation
Haika, previously posted (only this was North Carolina, season of
January):

Shovels slice the earth
Cold rain sludges the footing:
Concrete is delayed.

Shovels scrape footing
Rain scrape rain water freezes:
Footing scraped again.

Icy rain fills hole
Drudgery sludgery gone:
Sunshine dries the soil.

Hole swallows concrete
Low sun brightens smiling face--
Mason happy man.

_________________________________________________________
Dan Becker,  Exec. Dir.,   "Help me, Mr. Wizard!  I don't 
Raleigh Historic            want to be here anymore!"
Districts Commission                 - Tooter the Turtle
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919/890-3678

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