August Progresses into September!

I still need to capture pictures of the progress, but here are the words.

This weekend was a bluster of activity.  We were go-go-go, save for a few moments for meals.  Those were tough work - getting back up after sitting down is a whole shift in inertia.

Saturday marked the beginning of firewood season.  It's not been cold enough to build a fire, but the scouts have all gone home, so Daniel took us into the woods to forage for firewood.  We packed our coolers and chainsaws and caravan-ed to the trees.  Our first loads - four trucks in all - were big trees, used our big muscles.  Our second loads - another for all four trucks - were smaller trees from a different area.  As Marie pointed out, it is plenty tough for one reason or another to stack fewer heavier pieces and to stack lots of lighter pieces.  Plus the kids were pretty checked out by the afternoon.  All in all, I had a lot of fun and look forward to the next trip we make it out on, though given our supply of firewood and current lack of fireplace in the new house, it may not be right away.

When I got home from church on Sunday, I was relieved to see Thomas ready for action.  He'd loaded sheet rock into the back of the truck, thereby announcing the afternoon's work.  And it wasn't going to be so easy for me - these were 4' x 12' sheets, not the 4' x 8's.  We got the whole truckload hung and loaded up ten more sheets.  Not more than a few minutes after catching our breath from unloading them into the house, the rain started.  It was a relief to see the rain barrel fill back up again, but it was a muddy trek back to the house after an hour of rest.  We hung more and more sheets on into Monday afternoon.  After all the sheets were hung, we switched gears and hung our storm door on the front of the house.  As easy as it should have been, five kittens with a hankering to get inside made the work a lot trickier. 

So for Labor Day we labored long and hard and have much to show for it.  I'll show you sometime...