I have spent two days in the basement, taking the doors off. In VT all doors are paired to keep out the cold, cutting out the rotted wood which is always ten times as bad as you think it is, making concrete footings for the new door jambs. The original situation was, untreated wood set in dirt, duh, it rotted out? Today I removed the forms around the footings that I had poured yesterday and put in pressure treated replacement jambs, for the lower two or three feet, glued them to the cinder blocks. The cellar is half original field stone and half replacement cinder block. Remounting doors is a struggle, they weigh much more than you think when off their hinges. I used a lever to get it into position and re-attached the hinges. The door works, but is not in quite the same place that it was before. That’s because the new wood is in the usual standard sizes, and the old wood was probably locally milled and non-standard size. Hopefully, I’ll finish it tomorrow.
New blooms: another Asian lily and more daylilies.
More daylilies, this one is called fire alarm or fire engine or something that suggests redness.
I remember this one-'Blueberry Breakfast'.
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