[GH85Carrera]

Phew!

The bosses wife came in my office and the boss sent me outside to "do a little project" and it only took 5.5 hours!

The storage building lattice work was old (20 years at least) and broken in many places. So according the the bosses wife, it was imperative it get replaced ASAP. And today was the day. The lattice work is there to keep two little dachshunds from going under the storage building and getting rather dirty.

The old lattice work was put up buy some idiot (me) that really likes lots of screws. It was all that was holding it in place. Total overkill, belts and suspenders type of thing. Way over engineered, typical of my work. So I got to unscrew them all and then cut new lattice work to fit. Then screw in 20,000 or so (OK I know, my mom told me a million times not to exaggerate) screws. They are self tapping screws. Only I have to spin them real fast and press hard for them to do anything.

Oh, and some of the 20+ year old wood had some rot. So that had to be cut out, and new wood screwed into place. I am REAL glad Mike Holmes is not local and here to inspect. I would never allow it on my house, but this is a dang storage shed for lawn equipment.

I "got" to do a few thousand (no exaggeration, well maybe slight exaggeration) sit on the ground, and stand back up. I drug most of my tools out back, (OK major exaggeration, I got a lot of tools) and used my circular saw, cut off saw, drill press and three batteries of charge on the 18 volt drill driver.

The weather was perfect, and tomorrow is a cold and rainy day and Friday may be too. So today was the day for this week.