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The Highland Fling
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY: Scotland is becoming well known to us as Wetland. It rains every day, many times throughout the day, alternating with sun and rainbows. The work site has been dubbed "Castle Workhard" by Mike Goldberg, and with each day, the site gets muckier. You don't know what mud is until you experience a combination of clay soil, wet grass, and straw, with rain added every day. As the days go by, we run out of clean clothes, as most of us either don't have the time or don't want to deal with the time-consuming clothes washer. Since the dryer can hold only about two items of clothing, a drying room has been set up on one of the top floors where we can hang wet clothes, washed out in the sink.The timber framers have little time to do anything other than work: up for breakfast at 6:30 a.m., board the bus at 7:15 a.m., ride the 20 or so miles to the job site, eat lunch at the lunch tent while standing in the parking lot, and work till dark, getting back with just enough time for a quick shower before dinner at 7 p.m. The only down time is after dinner, when a speaker may give a talk or an impromptu jam session forms, or a group retires to the Lock Inn, our pub of choice in the village.
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