…rough weekend

We got Sunday off and boy did I make the best of it. One of my good friends got married and there was an open bar all night. I will spare you of the details because a.) I don’t want this blog session to turn into a small novel and b.) I honestly cannot remember much of what happened after the cake was cut.

Monday morning was a rough wake up and awful drive to work. If you take the rough wake up and multiply it by a factor of 10, that is how my entire day felt. The constant sawing and hammering were like small explosions going off in my head. I helped Andrew fill and wash gabions all afternoon. I am pretty sure anything regarding a power tool was off limits for me. Around 7pm, Nick ordered pizza for the gang; however, I could only muster up the courage to eat 2 slices.

Around 8:30 I left and was sleeping by 8:55.(I am staying 35 minutes away…the math is correct)

Today Andrew and I put up the gabions on the North wall, only to see them buckle upon each other. It was not a pretty site. Half a days work gone down the drain. I had an idea for the East wall which later on worked out great. We took the empty gabions and screwed them on to the furring strips with the tops off. The rocks were washed and then filled in-place. After they were filled, I stitched the tops shut with wire while Andrew salvaged the angled gabion.

The finished product looked great, and we are going to tackle the South gabions tomorrow.

– L. Schneider