Apr 20, 2008

What was I thinking?

Who's idea was this round thing? I'm only a foot out of the ground and everything has to be custom cut. This will take forever. Ahhh.............I'm going to have to take a "time out". The next lesson for Daniel-son and Grasshopper is how to navigate the 'Happy Talk Lounge'. Innkeeper, Innkepper....mas cervesa por favor! strategy. Some music, a bowl and a couple of brews.......No better way to plan strategy. Fortunately, Grasshopper and "boy" keep busy by working in the garden while the wise one figures things out. Garden looks beauty. The neighborhood varmints are starting to salivate. Just looked and the frogs seem to be first in line. Leafy greens must be where it's at.

Today, actually turned out to be a good practice day. Butchered a lot of wood trying to cut straight wood into curves. Finally put the silly tools away and pulled out "a big saw". Precision cuts aren't necessary. This is concrete. I got the regular saw out and got it turning just right. No problem. It was cutting 'bends' better than the jig saw.
I'm focused on venting the crawl-space under the house. The house stands about 4' foot tall before we build the main floor. Height under a house is good because air movement will keep it dry and the great Trade Winds flowing across this property will also keep the house cooler during the summer months. But this roundness is starting to bug me. I think we finally have the production aspect down. Tomorrow we make good progress. Then the girlfriend's Dad arrives. How exciting.

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