McComb Family

Well, we started off today with Briana's soccer game. She was very proud of herself for scoring a goal. Of course, she didn't want to listen to any suggestions on how she could improve her game. Being as she's being doing this for a month or so now, she must be perfect and way above constructive criticism.

Then we headed to Garden Valley for the Kids Expo. There were various booths set up for kids and everything was free. They went in the bounce house, did artwork, learned about Smoky Bear, played music, and a bunch of other things. Brie even climbed the rock wall. She got about halfway up and burst into tears. She did let go though and came back down. It would have been really bad trying to figure out how to get her back down from way up there!!! I sure wished I had my camera though.

Then we went over to the other house to try and help Bret get the front door in. Here's what is looked like before:

And with the door in:

This is not the real door though, this is the "construction door". That way when the stucco and sheetrock are getting done we don't have to worry about our new door getting covered with "gunk". The new door is still sitting in the box. Can't wait to see it actually installed!

Okay, so here's the real story - what the pictures don't tell you!!! When I went to help Bret with the door, there was about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch lip of shearwall hanging down into the door frame. I asked Bret if he needed to cut it, but before I know it he's caulking and we're lifting the door into place. We move it outside, twisting and turning, get it into place and, what do you know, it's a 1/4 to 1/2 inch too tall. So, we need the saws-all to cut the shearwall out of the way. Of course, it's at home, so Bret goes to find the handsaw while I try to hold the door up. When he finds it and starts cutting he promptly cuts through his thumb nail and pointer finger while trying to trim the wood back. He then has to try and saw with one hand while holding the other one with dripping blood off to the side (I just kept hoping it didn't drip on me!!!). Needless to say, we finally got it into place and hopefully leveled. The real test will be when the actual door is in. We're keeping our fingers crossed!! Oh, the McCombs and their construction stories!!!

Posted in: on Saturday, October 07, 2006 at at 9:55 PM