You know its gonna be a bad weekend when...

...you start the day by driving away with your coffee mugs sitting on top of the car and don't realize it until you hear the thud and the coffee is all over the street.

...the first thing that "hits" you once you start work is the realization that one person (OK, me) started marking all the 16" centers wrong (ask Bill what that meant to us) .

...the forecast is rain Saturday and brain melting heat after that.

...the rain has brought out the mosquitos in droves. Lots of little stagnant puddles all over (aka mosquito factories)

Yeah, it started out bad.

The table saw still isn't fixed so all cuts must be made with one of the various small electric hand saws or the chop saw that we have. For the most part it works well, but it results in some pretty rough cuts when you have to rip a long piece. On the good news side, we found the original receipt for the table saw and it had one week left on the 2 year warranty (the part alone was $80).

We did get lots accomplished though and ended up meeting our goal for the weekend, but it meant long days and the typical resulting exhaustion. The heat was brutal and took alot out of us. We took several breaks and drank gallons of water though. Our body gave us plenty of signs of when to break and we listened. We're both sore and really wanted to call in sick the next day but dragged our bums to work.

Accomplished:

1. finished ALL of the walls for the interior rooms of the 1st floor
2. put up the floor joists for 2nd floor
3. put on 99.9% of the sub-floor for 2nd floor (only some very small pieces left which require a better saw)

Neat things that happened to remind us that all of this hard work is worthwhile:

1. can actually envision the view from 2nd floor now and it is outstanding
2. caught a glimpse of a mink scooting across the front of the lot
3. saw lots of birds to whet our appetite, 2 kinds of warblers, wrens and sparrows. Plus the normal jays, chickadees and woodpeckers
4. the sound of children laughing and playing in the lake