Word: rafter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequented by locals, mostly, with a sprinkling of students. From the stools under the television a string of posters of the likes of Tiny Tim, W.C. Fields and Jack Palladine is visible, although it is hidden from the opposite side of the room by a rafter...
...Helen Rafter...
...arrived here this afternoon in a blizzard," entry after entry in the log begins. "The cabin was completely buried and we had to climb in one of the rafter windows...'" they continue. With slight variations on the theme, the winter climbers go on to describe subsequent attempts and successes at reaching their ultimate goal--the summit of Mt. Adams. One particularly intriguing entry several years ago described the adventures of a party of February hikers. They had planned to use Crag as a base camp and to make daily climbs to the top of Adams and to the smaller peaks...
...change. The amount of carbon 12 stays the same, but the unstable carbon 14 begins to disintegrate. The radioactive decay occurs at a regular and predictable rate, like the flow of sand through an hourglass. Thus by measuring the ratio of the carbon 14 to carbon 12 in a rafter, say, or in a bone, or in seeds found in a clay pot, scientists can calculate the age of ancient objects...
...cliffs on the other side of the inlet and carried by the waves to the beach by the cabin. Their dinner table is a huge telephone cable spool, sanded, stained and polished to a rich shine; a bunch of dried wildflowers and some fresh ginger hangs from a rafter; neatly assembled shelves and counters of scrap wood line the kitchen walls...