Some progress

Putz was over helping for the afternoon & evening yesterday (I started first thing in the morning).  By the time we were done he had helped for close to 9 hrs and I had been out long enough!

As promised, an updated picture of our home!

The 2 smaller windows in the room above the garage are for our ensuite bathroom.  I think we may add another at the front that is long & narrow (where the shower will be).  Yes, there are now toys on site...  Not only do dump truck need a ramp, they also need to hit jumps every once in a while!  I would actually pay to watch that happen in real life.  Wouldn't you?

And here is a picture of our first ever family meal in our new home.  We'll let the kids eat in the living room just this once!  There may be ketchup spots on the floor already....

Yesterday I learnt that:
1. a 21 ft wall with 2 windows is about max for Putz & I to lift together.  There may have been little grunting involved and a thought of 'what if this falls on us?'  What should have gone thru my mind is 'why didn't we use the wall jacks?'  What I wondered afterward was 'did Putz even help or did I lift that thing solo?'
2. that it's good to test your limits and know what you are capable of.  It's energizing and sobering and always a good story if you survive.  Most of us know what we are capable in a bad sense, but how many of us know our positive limits?
3. that I keep laying out the spacing on my walls wrong and always have to add an extra stud at the beginning to make it work.  Problem solver?  Not me.  Problem maker?  Maybe....  Get it done baby!!
4. that maybe I should figure out the measuring and stud spacing issue on my walls... for real.
5. that I prefer aching & throbbing pain rather than sharp cutting pain.  I'd rather slam my head into a corner (yes, it was by accident - and still hurts quite a bit) than gouge out a part of my flesh.
6. that I can't imagine doing this with anything less than amazing & full support of my wife and kids.  They have been incredible thru all of this. SuperLu is an incredible mom (as witnessed with spending the night before & all of mother's day taking care of a puking kid and whipping together a good supper last minute when we had to cancel our date because puking kid was at it again).

Later,
I.B.