As in most any endeavor that is worth while, Murphy’s Law always applies to construction. We planned to work two long days straight over this beautiful memorial day weekend. However, half way through the day Sunday our generator started to bog down. It made for a very tedious last half of the day. We had to stop work over and over to attend to the generator and keep it running for long enough to build up air pressure in the compressor. As Derek shouted measurements for me to cut, our perfect workflow became stumbled and then halted after about half of the master bedroom was framed in.
The kids and I did manage to finish cleaning up the front yard including taking a sledge hammer to the massive radiator. We had to break out the whole middle in order to have manageable pieces to place onto the trailer. There’s a small video here. And first thing Sunday morning we stacked a truck and trailer full of logs and kindling behind the garage.
Monday morning was also a bit of a bust. My grandmother passed away last year and we have been trying to get her house ready to hit the market. Our whole family feels like we are losing a limb seeing it go. But life goes on.
As always when someone passes people fight over some belongings while there are always things that don’t get claimed in the house. My mother just couldn’t let any of it go, so guess where it ends up? You know, because we have plenty of space. This morning my younger brother and dad both pulled up in large, covered trailers full of stuff. Not necessarily items or belongings, just stuff. All my brothers were there to help move everything into the house that was staying. Some hush hush, don’t tell mom stuff made it into the back of my oldest brother’s truck to be donated, and some back into my dad’s trailer to go back to their house or business building.
My second oldest brother had to come back with his tools to help us after we purchased a spark plug for our generator. Our efforts are all for naught. It still didn’t properly run. So back to the stores to buy a new one. We will buy a new carburetor for the old one and get it running later, but we just need to keep moving at this point.
After getting up and running again with power and pressure we were back at it. Derek shouting measurements, me cutting and him placing each board until we finally ran out of reclaimed boards large enough to use. We have many half pieces to still use but our next step is purchasing some bundles of 2x4s in order to keep going. We hope you enjoy our progress video. If you want to see more, keep reading the blog or just check out the rest on our YouTube channel.
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