Summer’s End

Since I’ve been slowing pulling long sleeved clothes out of the brilliantly organized “garbage bag” clothes storage system we have going on in the garage, and I also just ordered some much needed Carhartt bibs, I guess you could say the sun has set on our first summer of official house building.

This time last year I remember saying to MysteryMan, “Next summer is going to be the best summer of our lives.” And he was all, “Have you lost your everloving mind?”

I get that a lot, actually.

The truth is that it went by quicker than I would have expected. I thought we’d have more “sitting in lawn chairs, cooking our dinner on the grill next to our half-built house” episodes… which, in all fairness, we did do a lot of cooking on the grill, but not so much sitting around.

One thing we definitely did was a lot of building…

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It actually started with finishing the Station. If you can imagine, back when we started this, we actually spent a couple of hours figuring out the correct way to frame a corner.

There was a lot of mudding

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And finish work…

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And there was a time when I thought I might suffocate under the weight of thousands of little glass tiles.

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Then there was the donkey shed which we successfully pre-fabbed in the garage, and then assembled in the pasture

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And actually was finished just in time for its new occupants.

And all of that was just the peripheral projects, the big one required a lot of time with paintbrushes…

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Power tools…

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Demoing…

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And learning new tricks…

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We also got a lot dirty…

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And will probably be spending years digging grit out from under our fingernails.

Let’s not forget about all of that time spend up on ladders, either.

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The last two months of our lives have been nothing but ladders.

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But even if it meant more endless days of climbing up to the roof and back down, I wouldn’t have minded just a few more weeks of summer.

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