10 things I've learned over the past 3 weeks:
1. you will sleep better with $25 worth of beer than a $25 air mattresses from Superstore. Mostly cause the beer will stay in your body longer than the air in the mattress.
2. Owls make a lot of noise. Sure they are wise, but do they have to be so Whooo Whooo in the middle of the night just outside your yet to be installed front window.
3. Sawdust in your rubber boots is really irritating, but taping up the tops with duct tape makes your feet sweat a lot.
4. It's funny how when you are at a campsite you don't smell smokey, but 5 minutes in the Sobey's and you can't get far enough away from yourself. You could swear I smoked a pack of Export Plain in the truck on the way there.
5. I could sleep on bare plywood after 12 hours of hard labor and a nice bottle of red wine emptied 30 minutes prior.
6. Contractors will only do work at the last minute. They should give a course in procrastination.
7. I'm a fan of CBC, but CBC BC on a weekend morning is likely the worst radio I have ever listened to. It is driving me to buy Sirius. Of course CBC owns a big chunk of Sirius, so maybe their plan is working.
8. Civilization can be broken into three stages, 1. running water 2. central heat, 3. Refrigeration. You can have your cell phone, iPod or laptop...I'll put you in the cold with no running water and souring milk for a cuople of days, then come talk to me.
9. Toasting a bagel on an open fire with only a stick as a utensil is a learnable act.
10. When you buy a $4 pillow at Fields, you get a $4 pillow...no more, no less.
So this weekend I had company at the shed. After spending 3 weekends out there on my own, Lara decided to join me and "rough" it for a couple of nights. We are still in construction mode, so the place is pretty messy. Lara did a great job staining the back wall and as compensation I agreed not to put the pics of her peeing the woods on my blog. I will add this one though:
Finally got a shot of the interior now that they have dragged the scaffolding out of there. It still looks like a construction zone....probably cause it is one and I'm just living in denial. I do like the log purlins and posts. The cathedral ceiling looks really good. I don't want to have to get up there to stain though.
It's not pretty, but at least the roof doesn't leak anymore. It's a slow go, but I refer to thing I learned #6.
