I did not take a week off. Although I did not write a Blog last week, unfortunitely I had to work an 84 hour week to finish a proposal. Hopefully we are succesful in getting the project at the tune of $29mil. I eneded up missing my nephew's baseball tournament in Myrtle Beach as well as spending time here with Gin. It's all water under the bridge.
Last week I worked on recovering from the long weekend. I managed to work out every day and eat healthy all week. Friday night Gin and I stopped by Lowes for a box of siding so I could make some repairs to the areas where doors and windows were replaced. We ended the short trip with a few cold ones. That's right, we chugged a large bottle of YooHoo chocolate drink each and it was worth it.
Saturday I started out with the intention of making some siding repairs. First I cut some trim boards to go around the doors and windows. While Gin was staining them, I started pulling down the aluminum cladding and soffit boards on the front of the house. Most of the boards under the aluminum were rotten. They were an add on with the siding and are not part of the original construction. Once they were removed, the true archetecture of the house is exposed. I like the look of the roof rafters showing under the eve extentions. Unfortunitly for the wasps, their homes were exposed and a lot of them didn't enjoy the change.
Just before noon, an unexpected rain stopped all exterior work for the day. This left me no other option than to take a little well desrved nap. Stetson made sure I didn't sleep too long as he sounded the alarm to wake up after 20 minutes.
Sunday I started to work on the shed dormer at the front of the house. I managed to install the trim boards and was nailing the corner moldings when all of a sudden I was being attacked by some pretty angry (PO'd) wasps. I know I must have looked like I lost my mind as I swatted them away, threw my hammer off the roof (obviously to keep from hitting myself or breaking a window), scrambled to the ladder and maybe touched two rungs on the way down. I was stung once on my left arm and once on my right shoulder. Gin was sitting on the porch and heard the "S" word and a lot of scuffling and thumping above her head. I think she was waiting to see me hit the ground without the use of the ladder. Where is a video camera when you need one?
The picture above is of the nest I disturbed. They are living at the moment, I will take a contract out on their heads tonight. They will be taking a toxic shower later this evening.
Time to re-group and concentrate my efforts to the back of the house. Unfortunately, the wasps have friends back there plus a mafia. From places unknown, they kept coming out from little cracks in the siding near the bricks. The mofia I reffers to is the "Yellow Jackets" that decided to hang around my work area. That was it, I was done with that job until control and order is in place with the stingers.
Time to change speeds. I picked up all my tools and put away the siding materials. Cleaned myself up and fixed a nice grilled chicken salad and relaxed. Gin worked at Nachos all day, so I was in charge of the evening dinner. Patrick and Jessica came over for a turkey dinner. I must say the cornbread I made was the worst I had ever had. Gin's blueberry cobbler made up for the breaded misfortune.
After dinner, Gin and Jessica looked up recipes on the net. Patrick wanted me to play tennis across the street at the school courts. I managed to teach him three lessons. 1st I taught him how to hold the racket. Then the next two lessons were teaching him that Dad can beat him in a few games. He did pretty good for someone with no formal training. Thanks to Mom and her encouraging me to learn the game, I found out that I still have some of the skills I learned over 30 years ago. Good for me, bad for Patrick.
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