We're Still Standing

While I was in Turkey, Libby got a crew (thank you Simon Armijo and Charley Wagner among others) to build two concrete --or "SEE- ment" as we say here-- buttresses to hold up the crumbling east wall of our 120- plus year- old stone house, which regular readers may recall was dumping fist- sized lumps of mortar on our heads as we slept before I left. One problem down!