Curious, I get almost as many requests for photos of Ben as for Red or Lenore. Perhaps, I think, it is because we look alike. Perhaps not. Ben is still up on the roof, repairing damaged slate. He has a day or two to go. It gets hot up there, and the slate is too hot to touch. Ben does not eat any solid food that I know of, he exists on tobacco, caffeine, and high-powered sugar energy drinks. Ben, I think, will live to be 100. He and Ajay began whacking away at the collapsed barn today. We are getting somewhere, day by day.