Well my weekend is SHOT!!!

[Stinky_Hooker]

Well boys when I got home Friday afternoon I worked for about 3 hours. I had 4 boards bolted together when the "structure" fell over and I was ready to give up. :-/

About then I slung the air ratchet across the yard and probably said something profane. :-X

Then Lana walks over and picks up some miscellaneous board that is far from the next step and says "hea, daddy :-* "
:P









My will to quit was extinguished by that little girl and I said "self even if it kills you this mofo has gotta go up" :o



Here are a few pics....


parts....



more parts.... :-/





and more parts... :-/





The instruction book has 99 steps and I dont have a picture of all the fasteners, but I guarantee you they would FILL a 5 gallon bucket. :o






Me in the rain Saturday.







The wife felt bad for me (YES!) and came out and set up an umbrella. ::)



This really helped (since I wasn't soaked to the bone anyways) ::)


I worked ALL weekend with the help of my dad and a buddy on Saturday. Dad and I finished her up just after dark last night. 8)



I took a couple finished pics before work.










All in all it wasn't that bad....aww who am I kidding IT SUCKED!!! ;D


The instructions were very well written and all the wood was top notch cedar with excellent milling so everything went together well. We only had to trim about 3 boards out of 300. 8)




The most important step is that I got some MAJOR deposits into the wife's honey do account. I have a full pass this weekend and I'm off Thursday and Friday because we are getting the beach house ant the island. Sweet! 8)



It helped a whole lot that every time she walked outside to check progress I would wipe the sweat from my brow and bend over in exhaustion while mumbling something about dying too young. ;D ;)