Yeah, I know it's not a competition. Gunfxr, been tracking your progress over the year. Eagle, way to go brother, I'm sure you enjoyed the time off.

Seriously, old folks get it done, the young folks don't seem to have any work ethics. I see people come and go with the subs that we hired. Their main complaint "nobody wants to work" I could give two shits about their problem. "I" am your problem when you have to work for me.

On the lighter side, I just got back the two ten foot Cherry logs. The lumber mill was nice enough to slice it up for me, 3 4x4's, one 2x4 and the rest is all 1" boards ranging from 4 to 10" wide. I'm thinking about slicing up a couple of Black Walnuts as well. This will increase the variety of wood we'll have to play with to make stuff. I just have to get it stacked and spaced so it can dry out. We looked at it this way, they wanted to give $60 for the logs, screw that, I ended up with a trailer full of ruff sawn boards that would cost over a grand I'm sure. I know we'll use to build something.

I'm happy to see/hear that everyone is making progress. So we'll just keep plugin along and make life better and easier, at least for us and our families. At's what we do, right?