An ominous sky, a five-day forecast of sleet-snow, and a Hammond Lumber truck with a load of plywood backing up our narrow driveway: this is hot-off-the-presses news from Harmony, Maine. On the bright side, the load of plywood means that Tom will have no need to drive to work during the five-day sleet-snow storm. He'll be snugly ensconced in his shop with his big new saws, his nice insulated walls, his hot woodstove, and the Minutemen or Stereolab or 1970s Nigerian gospel reverberating from his stereo . . . because Tom is the kind of cabinetmaker who installs a stereo and large speakers in his woodshop years before he purchases the big new saws. Better a little useless saw than a bad sound system.