I haven't posted anything for a while. I need to get back into the habit.
We are down to about 80 days until Brandi's due date. It's always a little strange picking your child's birthday since Brandi has to deliver by c-section. But, the scheduled date is April 13th. I imagine a birthday including black cats and balloons on a Friday the 13th at some point in time in the child's life.
Brandi is now in full "nesting" mode. Some women clean everything, sort laundry, get the nursery ready, etc. My wife attaches sheets of corrugated tin to walls...Honest. She decided to accentuate Gavin's room. She painted the top half of one wall is his bedroom red, and the bottom half is covered in corrugated tin to go along with his Lightning McQueen theme. I'm continually amazed by my wife's creativity. As usual, it turned out really nice and Gavin loves it.
My recent project has been building storage shelves in our cold storage area under our front porch. As near as I can tell, the contractor must have decided to make the area under the front porch a cold storage area some time after pouring the foundation and then having an indefinite number of alcoholic beverages. I'm not sure what happened, but the room is definitely the shape of a trapezoid. It's so rare to find a square wall in the room that I have to assume when I do that it happened by chance alone. As near as I can tell, they came back in and poured the 2 additional walls to enclose the area after the main foundation was poured but didn't let a little detail like getting the walls square concern them.
Regardless the project gave me an excuse to use a power actuated nailer. I can't tell you how much of a man I felt like using that baby. It's the kind of tool that has a 12-page user's manual, and 11 1/2 pages of it are "WARNINGS". Basically, you load a single 3" nail into it and a load that basically looks like a .22 caliber bullet. You then push the barrel against a 2"x4", close your eyes, pray, and squeeze the trigger. It fires the 3" nail through the board and about 1.5" deep into the concrete. Pretty dang sweet...It's been the highlight of the entire project.
5 comments:
This Blog is quite entertaining. I will waste a lot of time here. Good to see that you have not lost your sense of humor in your old age. NIPPS
The power nailers are awesome. I used one when we finished our basement in Tooele.
Can we hire Brandi for some interior decorating advice?
Hi Jason,
How are you doing? I miss you guys and thought I would check up on you. You guys are doing some pretty manly work in that house!! Gezz take it easy!!! I bet Gavin's room looks great!! I hope all is well with your job and Brandi is feeling great, we should get together! Keep me updated, I think your kids are adorable!
Love,
Lisa
I think regular use of a power nailer should be FDA recommended for all male members of the population... I can think of several issues that would cure ;)
I want to see pictures of his room!
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