Come 'n listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed...
We are running outta room in our garage at home, so the time has come to transfer inventory. Also, with the cold weather comin', I would rather have that big ol' fibreglas tub/shower fixture bouncin' on the trailer in the warmer temps. As it winds up, loading the trailer the night before was the easy part. We spent all day Saturday wrestling with the trailer stuff and cleaning & straightening the mess at the LNP project. Yeah, wrestling with the trailer stuff...right. Dski pulled off another stellar demonstration of strength and stamina as we moved that stinkin' shower unit up the stairs. Holy cow, what a project. By the time we were both completely exhausted, it was precariously perched on the landing, wedged between the ceiling framing and the stair framing. It really looked like we weren't gonna be able to squeeze it thru. Finally, we both got that last wind and started gruntin' and groanin' and somehow, it popped thru and was now into the final set of stairs heading up to the 2nd floor...and we're both wiped out. OK, time to summon another second wind and up, up, and away.
- The vanities and oven/microwave seemed like cake, comparitively. We both celebrated that evening by sleeping like 2 middle aged rocks. - Dski is a cleaner and arranger. She is so predictable. If I ask her to vacuum up a pile of sawdust, an hour later she has completely vacuumed the entire area and put everything away. Of course, I had to stay involved just so I can watch and learn where all my tools are going to reside. Anyway, we rearranged and the downstairs really opened up. We had a 16" x 28 ft lam beam laying in our pile of lumber stuff. It was a reject from when our 2nd floor framing was delivered (a portion was fairly cupped and I complained). Anyway, it was replaced and we were told to just scrap out the old one. Well, I'm thinkin' this thing would make a great workbench top, so I cut it into 2 pc x 14 ft and cheated by laying it out on some sawhorses underneath the window along with a smaller sawhorse table to see how my future workbench will look in the shop zone. I'm inspired.
There is some super windy weather predicted for next week, so I decided it was time to lay in the carriage bolts that tie the gable end walls on the second floor to the 1st floor walls. Just a little bit of overkill insurance to provide a complete structural bond of all the framing from the bottom of the building to the top.
