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I had a great day. It was easily the most work I've done in 11 months… since I had that little medical melodrama.

My builder started framing the house at property #2 yesterday, and today I went up to help. I wound up staying for seven hours. I may have even done something useful - because I was given a specific job by the builder while he worked on other things.

My assignment was to set pressure-treated boards on the concrete perimeter walls, drilling holes through them so that they would fit bolts already fitted vertically into those walls. The boards were 2 x 12s, mostly 14 feet long (so they were heavy for an old, out-of-shape guy like me). They didn't all meet at 90 or 180 degree angles. Calculating where to drill the holes so they'd fit around the bolts and not screw the boards up was harder than you might think. At one point, I was standing on a 15" wall fourteen feet high (on both sides) drilling a guide hole into wood and concrete, swapping the bit so it could hold a 3" masonry screw, then fastening the wood down with the screw.

And it was extremely blustery weather - a little scary at times but I had a blast! Wow. I'm sore. I may regret this but I agreed to help again tomorrow. I'll finish what I started, though, and maybe come home after that if I'm tired.




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