There was a lot of banging, hammering, drilling outside of my study window all day, Jay Bridge is working his way around the house to put storm windows on the downstairs windows. This is bad news for the giant moths and mosquitoes and flies that have been storming their way through our porous small wooden screens for two years now.

Jay Bridge is a quiet man, but he does like to sing and whistle, it was melodic compared to the banging outside of my window. I asked Jay if he thought John Updike had to put with this when he wrote Run, Rabbit, Run, and Jay just laughed at me and kept on whistling. He is a quiet man and a conscientious worker.

My wife is a pagan, she sheds shoes, socks and jackets half the year, she has already thrown every window in the house open, there will be plenty of fresh air in the house until November after Jay gets done. Bad news for the moths, good news for us.