Our first Problem:
Cobys Dad was one of the helpers and he brought his back hoe over from Libby so we did not have to rent one. It started beautifully when he loaded it onto the trailer to head over to our house, got here and it would not start. They worked on it for 2 hours and could not get it to start. After calling around we were able to locate one in Great Falls that we could rent and were already heading into get the saw to cut the windows so why not?? Well the original plan was for Jerry to dig while Coby and his cousin Tom went into get the saw, but without a back hoe there was no work to do. They got back to our house with the equipment at 6pm, just enough time to give the chickens a quick ride. (in their PJ's cause thats how we roll)
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| Being Carried out by Grandpa for the back hoe ride |
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| Mikayle did not like it!! |
With no day light left we decided to get an early start the next day and hopefully get it done in the only day we had left to complete the project.
Problem #2-6:
My job was to entertain the chickens without a playroom and the ability to go outside in the yard. Not only that but it snowed on Thursday night (Problem #3) and was only about 25 degrees (Problem #4) so a walk to the park was out and I did not have a vehicle as our suburban is in the shop awaiting a new transfer case (Problem #5) so I set about my task with great hopes of a day at the dinning room table of games, coloring and art projects. About 9:30 I start smelling a VERY strong smell of gas and look up to see we are sitting in a VERY grey haze. (Problem #6) UGH!! So I run around and get fans and windows open to air out the house at the same time telling the chickens to get their stuff on because apparently we ARE going for a walk!! Some explanation, the saw we got was supposed to be better because you can cut from the outside and cut out the gas/exhaust from getting into the house, well, their first cut was off of a existing window so there was no way to keep the fumes from getting into the house. So we evacuated and took a walk around town, as we were walking I was telling the kids to take deep breathes in and out, we must have looked silly. We decided to go into the craft store just to look around and thaw out a little when the wonderful owner took pity on us and ushered the kids to the back room and proceeded to help them get their "craftiness on".
(Side note: These were taken with my new iphone and I think I can officially say I am a Mac lover now.)
After the crafty adventure we came back to a still stinky and slightly hazy house, I re-positioned some fans and we quickly had a area where we could breathe once again.
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| Our house looking like a construction site |
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| Digging so they can cut the second window |
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| Pulling the concrete out |
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| Now its ready for framing in a window. |
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