Wow, that's busy. Happy New Year.
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Ron Yearns wrote: > Well in many respects the year has been very short and also very long. > Lets see my divorce was final in January. I bought a house in Independence > Missouri in March. Opened up the attic and installed a pull down stairs > along withsome additional insulation where I was installing some flooring > boards. Started building a 10 by 18 shed in April. Started boxing up > stuff to move. Moved the 10th of June. Required two trips with a covered > pickup pulling biggest trailer u haul rents and one pickup trip later. One > gentlemen than helped unload remarked he had helped a lot of people move but > had not moved an anvil before. The shed had tar paper on the roof > and side > walls and a double three foot steel door. Got married on June 30th to a > wonderful woman that owns her own saws all and cordless drill along with > other tools. . Started unpacking. Got the Timberline shingles on the shed > roof. Moved a door three foot in my new office. Built many shelves in the > shed. Continued unpacking. Added a second door between the garage and shop > so I had a five foot opening instead of thirty inches. Installed a new 200 > amp panel box and new meter can so I could take advantage of a Fema grant to > put the overhead utility line underground. With Missouris ice storms and a > backyard full of trees it seemed like a good idea.. Continued unpacking. > Started putting vinyl > soffet and facia on the shed. Still unpacking. Also putting up shelves in > the garage, shop and office. Added a row of drawers to a workbench I had > only built 30 inches high back in 72. Replaced the battery in my wifes 2002 > Olds van. Required removing braces and fuse boxes to find the battery. > Finished the shed soffet started installing vinyl siding. still unpacking. > Installed the > black iron air line from the air compressor in the garage and into the shop. > No leaks. > Finished vinyl siding. Wife paints the shed doors. Rearrange shed to make > room to build another set of shelves in the shed. Continue to unpack. Rip > up and clean up some > old dineing room table leaves to make a small table to hold wifes computer > tower. Cover lawn swing and chairs with a tarp for the winter. Build nicer > set of bookshelves in shop. Do more unpacking. Wow. > Find Electric Code and upholstery books. Sorry guys, now I can back up my > answers. Convert eight foot pre light > Christmas tree to a five foot tree after wife says it will not work. My son > gives me a pair of the folding plastic saw horses. The old wooden ones take > a vacation out to the back yard until I can put a tarp over them. Maybe > next year things will slow down a little. Hopefully the house in > Kirksville, Missouri will sell. Only three boxes of books to unpack. Time > to insert a yellow page ad to get some furniture repair work. Time to > celebrate Christmas. And a Merry Christmas to one and all. > Ron > >
