We went to the new house (did you know it doesn't have walls yet?) on Saturday. They were building the floor. Mom slept in so we missed the part where the cement came shooting out of the truck onto our dirt, but Grandpa was there and he took pictures for resale value and/or future litigation. (Sorry, Mom took over typing.) There was another cement truck down the street for somebody else's house, so we went there and I got to sit in the big truck with my hard hat. I started to turn the steering wheel but Mom freaked and grabbed my hands away. Whatever. I was just going to straighten out a little.
Grandpa's face and arms were all wet like he had a bath. Mom said it was sweat because he'd been standing out there for 2 hours and then for 2 days before that making sure nobody screwed up. I don't think I want to have sweat if you have to stand outside for 2 days and nobody lets you have a nap.
Auntie Ali looked lost so I held her hand and took her back where she needed to go.
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After a while I realized that it wasn't going to get any cooler so I didn't protest too much when Mom said we should leave. I am starting to appreciate the beauty of a post-graduate degree. You can pay people to get hot for you. Except I don't think Mom's paying Grandpa.
2 comments:
Andrew,
Hope you and your Mom have a great life together in your new house. You'll always be able to tell people that you were involved with this house from the very beginning, even helping to drive the cement truck that was involved in pouring the slab.
It was VERY smart of you to help make this slab, and the house that will be on top of it, not only big enough for you and Mom, but big enough so that if some day you want to become a BIG BROTHER, there is lots of room for that as well.
I love you very much, and look forward to seeing you take care of all the man-of-the-house stuff.
Grandpa Joe
Andrew,
No more need for lateral thinking and virtual walls. As of tonight, August 5, 2010 your house has walls. Not all-the-way walls, with sheetrock and paint on the inside part, and brick or stone on the outside part, but walls nevertheless.
They are the wood part of the wall, which is called the FRAME. In concept, the frame is the skeleton of the house. You remember skeleton . . . . we talked about it when you asked me about muscle physiology.
So, on the first floor of the house, ALL the walls are there. That means the exterior walls, as well as all the interior walls. On the second floor, only the exterior walls are up. However, the framing part of building a house goes quickly, and within the next couple of days, the interior walls of the second floor, and even the roof, should be there.
I love you very much and look forward to giving you a tour very soon, hopefully this weekend, if it cools off a bit. Of course, we'll wear our matching hard hats.
Grandpa Joe
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