I think I should take the week off -- I was productive enough yesterday to cover me for a while.
I got up around 9:30 in the morning and worked on the deck with dad. We got the 4x4 posts down, the hand rails up and it's almost ready for spindles. We worked on that until about 1:30 or so. Then I borrowed the neighbor's power washer and washed the Dodge up. Then vacuumed out both trucks really well. Then Armour-All'ed the Dodge. Then I decided to go over to mom and dad's with the Ford and clean the inside of it using ammonia (that really gets stuff off the vinyl floors). After leaving mom and dad's house, I came back home, switched the ball hitch from the Dodge to the Ford, and moved my stickers (state park and compost site) over as well. By this time, it was dark out, but I wasn't done. I pulled everything out of the garage, swept the whole thing out, put up a new 10 foot shelf on the wall and rearranged the whole thing. I moved all my big tools (axe, shovels, weeder, brooms, etc) off the floor and hung them on the wall. Got the grill up onto the deck. Stored all my construction tools on the new shelf.
So at about 11:30pm, I sat down for a screwdriver and a chat with Lis. Run, run, run! But at least I ended the day with a nice talk with a nice girl. :-)
Oh yeah, and in case anyone's interested in the Dodge: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/car/203155163.html
My goal for today is to start calling contractors for bids on doing stuff in the basement. And perhaps a nap after work. :-P
Did everyone else have a nice Labor day? And I'm assuming this is a US-only holiday... but is there something like it in other countries as well?
I programmed (the language reference parser) and watched samurai movies. A fun wekend!
Canada has labor day as well
Your day sounds about like mine. My wife and I worked all weekend long on lots of things
Cleaned the garage, rearranged the outbuildings so we can get a new tractor in them, built several more steps in the lower deck (we have a 3 level deck .. pictures on my blog on my web site), got a few more rows of 6x6's in for the retaining wall, I excavated the remainder (by hand) and generally just got every thing where it should be.
Now when winter hits I can actually get at least 1 vehicle in my 2 car garage.
I'd probably be out there tonight fixing up the skirt on the garage door if it were'nt for it being a bowling league night. A reprrieve from working to go embarass myself :)
I still have lots to do but it's getting done (slowly)
I still have to put rails on my desk, a big set of stairs and several other items but we've had to prioritize what needs to be done before snow flies and what can be done even when the snow hits. Rails I've done in the winter before.
And I'm not excavating anything else til my new tractor arrives as it has a front end loader on it :)
I think that on all Europe countries the labor day is May 1, but le me check...
Yes, it's correct. The International Workers' Day (aka May Day or Labor Day) is on the 1st of May. Most countries celebrates it on this date.
US and Canada celebrates it on the first monday of September. In Australia it can be on March, May or October (is fixed by the various states and territories' governments). In New Zealand is on October.
What is curious is that China celebrates the Labor Day from May 1 to May 7:
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day
@Carlos -- thanks for that, very interesting stuff!
No labor day for us poor college students - I had class on Monday!