Call before you dig

...or pound.

We have all heard it. 

1-800-ONE CALL

But really, who would have thought you needed it for 

simple garden stake pounding. 

It was the typical day. 

(typical last three weeks days)

Work

Pounding

Amish

More work

Who's delivering? 

What's for lunch?

Did you get this sign done?

That ball team needs their shirts today!

Wait it looks like it is going to rain!

Drive home and get that load of clothes off the line.

Did anyone call that guy and tell him his shirts were done?

Deliver shirts

Hit a yard sale on the way

Load up treasures

What's for lunch?

Phones ringing

More pounding

Lumber Delivery

Who is going for the power trowel? 

Wait, you can finally get to the saw?

Cut sign boards

While the saw is out,

Can I please just have one stake?

(In retrospect, failure to cut this stake would have avoided a lot of problems later)

Is my car fixed yet?

Is Jenn's car fixed yet?

Who is taking the Amish home?

Take one car home, 

Wait for bikes to be removed from my garage slot

Walk back to the service station

Take the other car home

Write a $150 check for gas for all three vehicles

(Have a mild heart attack at that)

Mix up chalk paint

(More on that in another post)

Paint the nightstands in the garage

Watch Logan hit a baseball

Listen to Wyatt tell me a story

Put a coat of paint on the headboard in the bedroom

Oh wait,

JWS is home. 

Take the tools to the spare bedroom, 

screw that board to the top of the headboard,

and 

let's just quickly put that bird sign together 

while you have the screw gun out! 

JWS goes for the pounder thingy

and I hold the stake

and 

we pound it into the ground. 

Stepping back to admire our success, 

the landscape lights turn on as if 

to 

illuminate our handiwork. 

Ahhhh

done for the day! 

Until I realize that from the stake on

the landscape lights are not lit! 

Surely, that inch and a half stake did not hit the wire?

If we would have been trying to hit the wire, 

we never would have!

The next hour was spent

laying in the grass

with 

wire

and 

wire strippers

and 

wire nuts

and 

mulch.

I have to admit,

I could not help 

but 

giggle just a little at the 

absurdity of the day. 

and 

JWS?  

Surprisingly good natured about it all!  

(I think he is taking drugs)

Below is a pic of our new addition at work. 

It is almost done and we hope to start moving into it this week.