June 27 - Amish will be done tomorrow

I believe the Amish are pretty well done with shingles. I don't know how they handled the heat all day but they did. They'll literally wrap up their work tomorrow (Tyvek completely around the house) and give way to our primary builder Tom Lenig. The windows should be showing up any day and that's where Tom will get more actively involved in the construction process.

We met for 4 hours today at our place with a young Amish cabinet maker. After 4 hours of conversation and drawing, he was able to give us a price for our kitchen cabinets. This young man does not advertise his business. All his business is by word of mouth and referrals. He has no computer, of course. Just a briefcase, graph paper, a calcualtor and a pencil. This makes three bids on our kitchen cabinets that we will be considering. We'll make the decision some day next week.

All the while, his young driver waited outside in their Ford Excursion in the 100 degree heat. We offered to let him come inside the house but our offer was declined. 

At dusk, the deer really come out around here. Monday evening we saw a fox, a bobcat, two large bucks with impressive racks, too many does to count and a momma skunk with 5 little ones. 

A little earlier this evening we saw some antlers but I didn't get a good pic. Here are two yearlings who crossed our driveway right before sunset. There were at least 6 deer hanging out on Meadow Ct. this evening.