Well, the Fairmount Park men have been here. They are trying to fix the stairs (which, for those of you who don't know, were coming down).
We learned that the stairs were apparently built away from the sight of the real building. There must have been a misunderstanding because apparently the stairs were too small. So they (the original builders that is) decided to put in a second beam next to the main beam so that they didn't have to rebuild the stairs.
Well, that was all very well 300 years ago but now apparently some of the "summer beams" have slipped off of the second beam and are just floating. And, no, I have no more idea what a "summer beam" is than you do. If any of you have ever heard of them please, please comment and tell me what they are.
So, the huge piece of metal that they were supposed to be putting into the stairs on Thursday is not in and who knows when it will. Or the three of four that will be following it. Did I mention that the "steel rods" that they are using weigh twenty pounds per foot?
I will try and keep you updated on the house...
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It is usually the main support beam in an old home.
Webster's second unabridged and the Oxford English Dict. give the word as "summer" by itself, as a noun. Origin: French "sommier," rafter, beast of burden; traced to Late Latin "sagmarius" (meaning unknown to me) and "sagma," packsaddle.
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