You know it’s going to be “that kind of day” when, first thing in the morning, you spend a half-hour crafting a beautiful railing piece and then not only cut the 45° bevel (where the pieces join together) the wrong way, but start the screws along the top edge instead of where they belong along the bottom edge. After creating and installing a second beautiful railing piece (bevel cut the right way; screws where they belong), dug the holes for two more in-ground posts in record time while Chree continued installing 3′ deck boards. Ran out of DeWalt 18v battery juice about 11:30. As a functioning drill driver is essential to walkway construction, spent the next hour manufacturing a ramp for loading the new generator into the RV generator compartment or the bed of the Ranger, as needed. After lunch, converted the Ranger into a portable electrical generation station, then carefully installed the next set of stringers 2½″ too high ‘cause some idiot moved the string line in order to install the first toe cap board… and forgot to move the line back onto its mark. While fixing that little faux pas the DeWalt drill driver started to smoke. Not generally a sign of good health, what with the cancer scare and all. Chree says there’s a strong possibility there will be a new drill driver, or at least two new batteries, in my near future. As the temperature this afternoon was in the 90’s, knocked off work early and all four of us went for a refreshing swim.
