More Mortar

My fourth day up a ladder (not exclusively – an hour a day is the most my knees can take) brought the barn door lintel repair closer to conclusion, rotten wood out, the gap filled with new wood, primed and ready to paint, and some minor mortar work done; naturally I mixed too much mortar so used the excess on another job and, again naturally, there was not enough to finish that one so I had to mix even more of the stuff.