Familial Labor

We're taking advantage of living near our family today.  The whole tribe is arriving throughout the day to be set to work on tasks.  My Dad, brother, and Dave are going to be replacing the roof on our garage.  (We suspect Dad's trip to the hospital last week was a last ditched effort to escape from the hell he's about to enter!!)  Mom is going to be staining our wine rack and our picnic deck furniture.  Lisa, bro's gf, is going to be organizing a stone wall around a flower bed and helping to paint the family room (if we get that far).  I'm going to be prepping our new plant beds, creating trenches around our new plant beds, spreading pine needles in plant beds, washing windows, picking out the stone for the wall, and hopefully nailing down the color for the new family room.  If we get that far, then we'll start prepping the room to paint it over the weekend, too.  Also, I'll be trekking back and forth to school to keep from looking like a total slack dog at work. 

We're hoping this push will be the last big one for prepping the yard and garage, and we can start focusing on, well, for me, finishing up these honkin' research papers.  If we finish all these tasks, the last things we'll need to do are paint the baby's room and put the windows in the garage for the remodel.  Ok.  And then put the dry wall up and paint the new garage office.  But honestly, after everything else, that just seems so small!! 

Yay for family!  Yay for free labor that doesn't complain too much!  Yay for us committing to helping them in their own barn-raising in the future.  Yikes for everything we have to do!!!!!!

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