(written on April 19th)
We’re going to call today “shed day.”
I found a little church in Bentonville that was selling a tool shed for a really really cheap price, And I wanted to surprise my mom with it because she’s been wanting a toolshed for a long time.
I figured it might take me a couple hours to load up onto my trailer, and I thought I had a pretty good plan for how to do it, but it turned into a pretty good nightmare. Instead of a couple hours, I think I ended up spending seven? 😅
It was only an 8 ft by 11 ft shed, but it was like 11 or 12 ft tall, So really awkwardly shaped. And though overall I think I had a good plan for how to get it, I tried to take a shortcut. Instead of going and buying some new 12 ft 4x4s to lift it up onto, I tried to use 10 ft 4x6s that Jim had. I thought 10 ft would be enough, but it wasn’t.
In the process of trying to load it, I mangled four of the width-wise subfloor boards because the skids had rotted off, So it was just the subfloor that I was sliding across trying to get it up on the trailer. 😕
After 7 hours, and missing church when I thought I was going to be quickly done before church, I finally got home with it, gratefully without having anyone give me grief for having a crazy tall load on my trailer (I did have oversized load banners for the front and rear), But unfortunately not before the very last tree/ obstacle to avoid in my journey home I didn’t see, so I smashed into the tree branch that went over the road over by Stevie’s house.
That was super discouraging. All that effort, making it all the way from Bentonville home without any issues, and the very last tree I need to avoid, I space the fact that it’s got a low hanging branch, and boom, I’m mangle the front end of the roof a little bit.
😕
I’m not doing well. I haven’t been doing well for a long time, and I’m just getting worse and worse, and so all these little things that happen… they just… I don’t have any resilience anymore.
There was some kind of family get together at Jim’s house after that. I don’t remember what it was for. But we all got together for something. I think maybe it was just for dinner. That was good.
~ stephen
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