Friday
- Up at 7:30.
- Coffee
- Breakfast
- Checked work email
- Went to paint store
- Went to Home Depot
- Wanted to immediately go home
- Bought cedar lumber and 11 bags of garden soil
- Lunch
- More coffee
- Ripped down three 2x10x10s to three sticks of 3” wide each
- Hauled 300 pounds of stone to side yard.
- Built cedar wood rack – face cord
- Started stacking firewood
- Shower
- Dinner
- Movie at home with my wife
- Asleep by 11:00
Saturday
- Up at 9
- Coffee
- Breakfast of 3 different cereals
- Sharpened chainsaw
- Started cutting up two trees worth of cherry.
- Split some and used chainsaw to rip rounds that were too knotty to split
- Lunch and more coffee
- Spent 8 hours on the saw
- Made crazy amounts of sawdust
- Lost count of how many times I sharpened the chain
- Stacked 9 loaded wheelbarrows of cherry in firewood rack
- Real tired.
- Wife gave me a haircut.
- Shower and shave
- Wine and Aleve with dinner
- Real tired
- Asleep by 10:30
Sunday
- Sore
- Laid in bed till 9:30
- Coffee
- Lost 2 hours on Instagram
- Started chainsaw again.
- Neighbors SUPER happy with me!
- 2 hours to finish cutting all the cherry up
- Moved 230 pounds of bricks
- Stacked rest of firewood
- Cleaned up sawdust and loaded trailer with 8 wheel narrows worth of the stuff.
- Had more coffee
- Took apart compost bins
- Loaded compost into trailer
- Can’t use… rats nested in compost!!!!
- Super pissed!
- Went to check 2 bee hives
- Said a LOT of dirty words
- All bees are dead
- Almost cried
- Cold snap nailed them as they were starting to move and gather the first bits of spring pollen.
- Lots of honey still in hives and new pollen everywhere
- Dammit!!!!!!
- Had to take a time out
- Pulled the hives apart, harvested the wax, left fames with honey out overnight to feed other bees.
- Super pissed off and sad.
- Loaded weeds and yard waste into trailer.
- Talked to Son on phone and tried calling daughter
- Showered
- Had dinner
- Wife poured me a nice beer to make me feel better
- Paid some bills and worked on budget.
- Took Aleve
- Had a back rub
- Passed out