Wednesday 26 March 2014

A flying start

It gets light around 05.20hrs. I know because I was there, to get off to a flying start. And it would be because everything was set up ready to go, no carrying stuff to the building site, it was all there in the dry under the roof, but as ever it wasn't quite as planned.
Plan being to get out of bed quietly without waking rug rat MkII in cot at side of bed. I was doing well until I opened the bedroom door and a Bernese Mountain Dog who had not seen me for 5 hours 21 minutes couldn't contain herself any longer and gave me a huge good morning welcome and bounced around.
Placate my beautiful and oh so patient wife, sooth rug rat MkII get downstairs, persuade different but equally enthusiastic Berner to give me my trainer, eventually, and get out doors.
 Back indoors for coat as sun had yet to make an appearance (actually we live on the dark side so the sun appears, if allowed, at around 11 am this time of year) and it was too cold for t shirt order.
Set up saw horse, look for tape measure, back indoors for tape measure in different coat pocket.
 Measure first OSB3 board of the day.
 Back indoors for glasses to read tape measure.
Measure board.
Look for pencil.
 Chastise Bernese Mountain Dog eating pencil.
 Discover that green crayon is also in same state as pencil and yellow crayon does not show up.
Search for alternative marking system.
 Search Gerry for writing implement.
Curse inventor of Bic Biro for not anticipating a time when invention would be used to try and draw straight lines on a wet OSB3 board in the early morning.
Give up trying to draw with BIC.
Return to house and get permanent marker.
Success!
Decide dawn chorus is not the sound track for sawing wood so use phone to play prog rock and heavy metal.
Run back to house for phone charger.
Finally, make first cut of the morning.
Fit three panels.
Get changed.
Go to work.

No comments: