Good for you for accepting the challenge. I was lucky (?) enough, from the time I was a teen, to live in a place where if you didn't do it yourself it just didn't get done. If your car broke down, you fixed it. If the plumbing backed up, you fixed it. If the well pipes froze when it hit 30 below, you got out there with a pick and chipped away the ice and dumped boiling water on the pipes until they thawed out. All that practical knowledge turns you into one self-reliant SOB. I've spent the last few years building a log cabin all by myself, winching the logs up the walls by hand, cutting the notches, fitting the logs and rolling them into place. No way could I have done that without suitcase of eclectic skills I've collected over the years. Can't say it was all smiles and giggles, though. You look like you're having a real blast monkeywrenching that piece of equipment. I have a picture somewhere in the old album of me standing next to the Xmas tree on Christmas day. I'm in coveralls covered in grease and my hair is matted with transmission oil because I had to pull the old transmission out of my Toyota Corolla and put in a new one because I had to go to work the next day and we only had one car. That's life. Wouldn't have missed those experiences for the world. Keep it up @papa-pepper. It grows on you.
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Wow! Very cool. Thanks for the encouragement, and your cabin sounds amazing!
You are amazing. With so many posts and so many commenters, how do manage to reply to all of the comments? I have 32 followers with maybe two or three commenting and I'm getting behind. Amazing! Are you sure you aren't twins? You don't have to answer. It's just an observation.
@meesterboom is my twin, and I don't get all my comments either.
Boy, I do still have a lot to learn, don't I? LOL.