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Our internet connection was down last weekend (we think a technician bumped an antenna on the mountain on Friday afternoon) so I didn't get to send the weekly garbage. I don't have that excuse this week so here goes.

Lessons learned:

• When 3 men lift trusses onto the beams, no-one gets a black eye
• The back axle of a Ford pickup ( Read more... )

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Some lessons learned this week:

• Playing with a skunk earns the dog a lonely night in the shed.
• America is not on the metric system - a 14 foot 4 inch gap is not covered by a rafter cut to 144 inches.
• A truss that has been lifted to 9 feet and a ½ inch above the ground is not yet resting on a beam that is 9 feet 1 inch above the ( Read more... )

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Lessons learned this week:

• Moving stuff from building to building is repetitive, redundant and done way too often
• It's a good thing that most of my carpentry is hidden in the walls and roof of the building,
• Concrete mixing is still hard work - it didn't get any easier.
• It takes 5 days for a ½ inch splinter to work its way out ( Read more... )

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