Running a Bit Behind Schedule

I reserve a block of time to hunt every fall.

It’s typically the whole season.

My wife used to push back a bit, but in recent years has relented, finally realizing, I suppose, that four months of me gone most days is a pretty good deal.

This fall I’m paying her back.

Instead of hunting I’m building.

We sold our house in Malta last summer forcing us to downsize. What didn’t fit in our cabin on the lake we divided between the office we still have in Malta, and the small house we bought a couple of years ago in Livingston. Both places are packed.

The solution, we decided, was to build a garage be...