NOV-B-2
THANKSGIVING—THE TRADITION CONTINUES,
TRADITIONALLY, WITH THE EARLY MORNING
THIS TIME WITH NEW SPORTY WHEELS—
TO TRAPPE AND THE
FOR THE OPENING DAY OF DEER SEASON
There is s forest of cables
strung everywhere in Derwood and holes drilled in the ceilings and floors
everywhere to pass them through to a tangle of vine-like lianas strung through
the Dark Room toward the site of a new circuit breaker box soon to be
installed. One lone roofer was shingling
the Breakfast Room when I went there today with the thought of packing away
things out of the Bronco, retrieving its title, tires and various warranties,
like the lifetime guarantees on the transmission and the next two years
guarantee on the battery and tires. I
also need to pick up all my hunting gear and get ready for the trek out to the
In both places there is a further complicating
feature---there is no light! I cannot
see anything at all, and had to go to the Bronco to get a light to even find my
way to where each of these items is blocked.
So, I will have to borrow a shootin’ iron or two from Craig for the
waterfowling on Friday and the rifle for deer hunting on Saturday’s opening
day. The only rifle I have accessible is
the 340 Weatherby Magnum that I could not put away for
the same reasons that I cannot get anything out now, on return from
RETURN OF THE NATIVE, AS I READY THE BRONCO FOR ITS
LAST LONG HAUL NEXT MONTH FROM MD THRU NY TO IL AND MI
I took the Metro in to GW to retrieve the Bronco from the garage. I had to do some rapid business, which included the application for the mortgage I had been considering doing as the expansion of the Derwood project has added new dimensions to the undertaking. I also had to insure both vehicles and will re-license the Audi when the title arrives. I am also getting the title for the Bronco and every gallon of gas it has ever consumed and each serving in a packet to be brought up to Michigan, where it can negotiate the heavier snows of the Midwest. I will inure the both of them through December 31, and had written a note to Tom with my plans for the travels of December, leading up to the first trip of the New Year to Cumberland at which time some of the items can be retrieved by road if I return by air from Michigan. (See Nov-B-3) When I pick up Joe tomorrow, he had his choice as to whether he would rather get a ride in the new luxury wheels (now that I have tried to wash off the evidence of the bombardier birds off the hood which attracted their attention when they had congregated in a tree over the vehicle) of for sentiment’s sake, get one more ride in the trusty Bronco that he can get in and out of so easily and which is the only vehicle he has ever known me too drive. I have packed the Audi with what I can find to carry out to Trappe MD for our Thanksgiving Day celebration.
ANOTHER YEAR-END TRADITION
THAT HAS BLOSSOMED INTO A TECHNOLOGIC
AND LABOR-
INTENSIVE COLOSSUS:
THE CHRONICLE-03 WILL BE READY FOR
MAILING
Each of the component parts of the massive undertaking of the year-long effort in getting the 03-Letter underway involves a lot of working out the logistics of repairing faulty machines—especially copiers—and the glitches that can come up in computers (at present the professionally done CD cover pages cannot be opened from the CD which is in a “format invalid or unsupported.”) This is what computers say when they cannot understand the four-color scheme in which it was done and it has to be re-done in three-color scheme before I can either print it or transmit it to you electronically. But, do not worry. I had been working day and night to get it ready for a pre-Christmas mailing, along with the pictures that enhance its value.
MEETING WITH KEITH CARR,
WHO MAKES SOME SUGGESTIONS ON THE
WEEKEND
PRE-HUNT
AT BOTH
I met with Keith Carr (after a delay in which
he was very patient—based in the unusual problem of asking directions first,
and being sent toward the wrong Legal
Seafood) and went over many items in the plans and suggestions for further
Derwood and later arrangements. His
special advice was for a very special introductory vist to
I showed him the album of Derwood pictures as it is being transformed, and he will call me to make an appointment to come out later and to look it over. I am also arranging a visit by the appraisers for the mortgage company FSM that Bill Morgan had recommended, and the agent Wendy Steinberg, whom I specially mailed a large packet of information showing the plans and progress. She had called Dan Kennedy at my suggestion who may act as my settlement attorney.
WALK-THROUGHS AT DERWOOD:
DECEMBER 9 WITH THE WHOLE MANAGEMENT
TEAM
AT D. G. LIU AND THEN THE FURTHER
PRE-MOVING BACK
WALK-THROUGH ON JANUARY 8, PRECEDING
WILDERNESS
PRIOR TO THE ANNUAL HOG HUNT
In addition to some of the plans which you can see outlined in the four venue stops of the Nov-B-3 contents, Dale Kramer had called this morning to set up a breakfast meeting with Jerry Liu and Project Manger Tim after they bowhunt early in the day, then we go for a walk through in which they can see the progress on this project of the scope it has become. It will be my first time to meet the other managers and we will all get a chance to talk and compare notes on what is seen so far. The quality of this construction work is amazing, especially when even a casual nonexpert can glance at one addition being tacked on a house up Kipling Road and I had seen the evident low-cost (but, high price) construction in King Farm’s cloned developments. It is good to see the whole team taking pride in the quality of the project, and it certainly shows. The change orders I will initial are going through and the large number of purchases selected with Sandy Shelor are going in as orders for the interior designers’ purchases now. The deliveries of all this new and high quality coordinated design may mean that I should reserve the dumpster to remain as the attic is emptied out after the interior work is continuing. In the dumpster now, one peek will show the couch and its extensions, garbage disposal, stove top and every remaining kitchen item before the walls themselves have been peeled away to bare studs festooned with new electric cables and outlets.
The only specialty I have not seen represented at Derwood so far is the plumbing subcontractor, now several weeks going on months late. This has been a source of consternation to Glenn Murrell and many of the other subcontractors who are having to stall and modify their own projects now as the crescendo of the “closing in” has pushed the work inside.
THE BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE
YMCA BENEFIT
10K