Married Leos

Over the weekend, Saturday to be exact,we began Phase I of the Patio Deck construction. It figures the weather would turn cold the day we were going to be working outside. It was in the mid to upper 70s all week then on Saturday it was only in the 50s and windy as hell.

The Queen and the Big One took some pictures of us working that I was going to post, but when I went to get the pictures off the camera ALL the pictures on it had been deleted. The only ones left were the ones I took of the post holes on Sunday morning, which I will post later ( unless you see them below , then I already did ). They were laughing at us, well at me in particular, saying we looked like Bluto an Olive Oyl ( from Popeye ), me being Olive Oyl. The abuse I must take.

The 8 gopher holes we dug

We got 5 holes dug when the Queen came back with our lunch, so we took an hour break before going back out for the remaining 3 holes. After lunch we had 90 minutes before the post hole digger needed to be returned, so that gave us about 60 to get the holes dug, which is plenty of time since it was only taking about 10 minutes per hole. First hole out after lunch the post hole digger gets stuck and we cannot pry it back up. F%#& !!!! Cheap ass digger had no reverse on it, so anytime we started it up it wanted to go further down. Tick, tick tick tick. Time was fading away. Nothing was working to get this thing up. We ended up getting two neighbors to help up pull this thing out of the ground, the shame of it all. The last two holes went pretty quick and finally we were done with the most physical part of the project. So my cousin says.Next up, cementing in the posts.We were supposed to do that this coming weekend but we got some expected yet unexpected news that my Grandmother died on Thursday, so we have to make a trip down to North Carolina over the weekend for the funeral.
Our plan now was to finish the work the weekend of the 10th. On Sunday he called and said that weekend is Mothers Day weekend so that Sunday was out for working. Grr another set back. So he offered to come out while we were gone and cement the posts in then we would do the framing the Saturday before Mothers Day.

Nothing ever seems to go as planned. Stay tuned for more fun project information.

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