A Great Start on a Short Week

Yesterday was cancelled as a work day given the arrival of the rain that had been touted since last Wednesday. True, some places got rain, lightning and hail but, when I arrived at the site shortly after lunch, we'd had little rain and very little more followed. This despite the radar tracking I watched before and after my trip up there to take delivery of another load of material from Parkside. The rain seems to have veered north just before our property, deciding instead to dump over 40 mm on Gimli.

Since it wasn't raining yesterday, it relieved me of any excuse for not rearranging existing on-the-ground materials, and then restacking the OSB sheathing when the four lifts all broke their strapping upon being offloaded. If my arms weren't already tired from having helped Claire move to her apartment, they were by the time I finished the restacking, then the shuffling through our storage locker to help Ruth & Claire find a number of buried treasures.

Today, while Davis sheathed the main floor and Delaeno & Nathan worked on the loft walls, I sorted the stick material delivered on Monday, passed 40 2x6 studs up to Nathan, then proceeded to load and move over 30 wheelbarrows of 3/4 down material about 120 yards from beside the garage pad to the driveway approach. Now my arms are pretty much leaden. Too much for my creaking bones.

Tomorrow puts Davis in the spotlight, as the first of three truckloads of concrete arrives for the garage pad at 9 a.m. We'll all be assisting him and, by 6 p.m., maybe we can all go home to another fine Ruth-made supper.

Out, and out.