The post last night is this morning instead. The food tent becomes a gathering point in the evening, because you can't stay outside with all of the mosquitoes. The mosquitoes find you anyway, but it just seems a little more fair when you can see them under the light of the tent. Everyone was gathered around until I decided it was too late to think straight.
You should have been here yesterday. If anyone had a video on us yesterday, then they would have an instant YouTube classic. Seven men trying to square up a deck is very entertaining work. We spent a lot of time working on a 1/4" out of square. The house foundation seems to be about 8" out of square, but we want to be proud of our work when we leave.
You should have been here yesterday. If anyone had a video on us yesterday, then they would have an instant YouTube classic. Seven men trying to square up a deck is very entertaining work. We spent a lot of time working on a 1/4" out of square. The house foundation seems to be about 8" out of square, but we want to be proud of our work when we leave.
We laid out the 6X6 posts. You can barely see the strings diagonally across the corners. The idea is to get the length of each to be the same. Once we figured out the right point to measure, we were right on.
Laying out the 2X10X12 to hang the joists.
The deck is taking shape and will be very strong walking out the door. We hope to finish today. We will need 9' for the steps (the deck is 66" off of the ground). The steps might end right at the street...
Tonight was SC night for dinner. Harry D, Norma, and Marie did most of the work. Harry's special sauce was fantastic. I do not think that anyone has had better BBQ in years or more. A few of the TX group were conceding defeat after their second pass through the line.
We have enough to share tonight with the TX shot in the cookoff.
We drove past Shirley Thompson's house last night and John and I stopped in to drop off the bags with the Dawsey's. I do not have the time to relate the visit. John and I almost didn't get out of there. They wanted to visit for a long time, feed us, get us drinks, just like they were when we came down in April. They remembered me as the guy that would come and go real quick. They remembered Mary and Valerie - Valerie was that older women that rides a Harley and jumped the ditch. JL made pictures for us. It was hard to get out of there, but we needed to get back to work.
I need to stop now. My group may wonder if I am shirking responsibilities. This morning we have Potty duty.
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Texas did not concede defeat. One had to wonder why there was plenty of SC meat left over while the Texas bbq was gone the first night.
We made it home safe and sound Sat evening and I'll starting writing my report tomorrow morning.
Thanks for a great time, Jason!
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