Three Day Weekend at Home:

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

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