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Offline demon78

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The last spike
« on: November 12, 2009, 03:49:23 AM »
Yesterday after the Remembrance Day parade, my wife and I came home and put up the last pieces of siding, drove the last nails and screws to hold them, it was a job that I figured that would take about a month in August but dragged on and on, so we finished yesterday a month and a half over time, lessons learned, as you get older things take more time than they used to, the older the more time, less and less can you work in cold temperatures, less and less can you force yourself up the ladder, less and less can you force yourself to work when you're sick, but by the bones of Christ it's done and before the snow flew and settled in. I'm immensely proud of my wife who at 62 went up the ladder, nailed, cut, leveled and measured with the best of them and if she hadn't had to go in for skin surgery would have sat down with me and downed a couple bottles of chilled bubbly after the deed was done. Yes we will post pictures soon as I figure out how to do it.
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Re: The last spike
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2009, 04:13:19 AM »
Congrats to you both! I still have not made much headway in replacing my porch steps, and am already thinking I won't get to it until spring. I don't believe my tardiness has increased with age though, I've always been apathetic concerning chores.

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Re: The last spike
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2009, 07:18:30 AM »
I am building a dividing wall and hanging a door and it seems that I run out of steam after a few hours. After the recent deluge I now find that there is a leak around the chimney and the panel beneath it has started to lift. The joys of home ownership! :-\

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Re: The last spike
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2009, 07:40:38 AM »
Final spike picts[/img]

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Re: The last spike
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2009, 07:44:43 AM »
Sorry I've screwed this up.

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Re: The last spike
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2009, 07:46:22 AM »
One more time

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Re: The last spike
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2009, 12:56:11 PM »
Nice going! I love being able to fix and do things by myself. I redid a bathroom, almost everything except some of the sheetrock. I can safely say that copper plumbing is a real pain! I like pvc plumbing better!

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Re: The last spike
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2009, 08:11:56 PM »
Now come on .... it was fun right?
Laugh at least once a day.
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Re: The last spike
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2009, 03:51:06 AM »
No actually 74 it's beginning to feel like what my old W.O. used to say " Ahh Mac it's liked wiping your arse with a hula hoop there's no fooking end to it" ( in retrospect he may have been a natural philosopher ) that aside the only other projects can mostly be done with out the sword of weather hanging over us.
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Re: The last spike
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2009, 03:56:20 PM »
wife and i built three houses
and i mean we built them
every 2x4 has my hammer mark in them
wife pounded nailes right along side of me
good woman
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Re: The last spike
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2009, 06:00:51 AM »
Tramp, my wife is the daughter of a contractor that used to build houses and the only time that we really butt heads is over how to do carpentry type things, so certain things are her domain and others are mine, it works, she does feet and inches and I do thousands ( until my eyes started dimming I could tell how deep a scratch on a valve stem or piston was with in a thou, but how many feet that is uhh) and she's worked along side of me for over 40 years every thing from fixing appliance, renovations and building houses, man did I get lucky.
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Re: The last spike
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2009, 04:49:06 PM »
Congrats to you both! I still have not made much headway in replacing my porch steps, and am already thinking I won't get to it until spring. I don't believe my tardiness has increased with age though, I've always been apathetic concerning chores.


   Ben...You DO know that you have an excellent carpenter living not too far from you that would be more than happy to advise/lend a hand/do the entire job for you in exchange for a beer or two OR a short/long blast on the Hayabusa. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: The last spike
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2009, 05:47:01 AM »
Tramp, my wife is the daughter of a contractor that used to build houses and the only time that we really butt heads is over how to do carpentry type things, so certain things are her domain and others are mine, it works, she does feet and inches and I do thousands ( until my eyes started dimming I could tell how deep a scratch on a valve stem or piston was with in a thou, but how many feet that is uhh) and she's worked along side of me for over 40 years every thing from fixing appliance, renovations and building houses, man did I get lucky.
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i know
i came home from work and she had already shingled 3/4's of the way up on a shed we were building
1974 750k