Yesterday, I helped Jerry and Edgar with the rock wall for a couple hours in the morning and then went off on my own to start my own little project; building a polished cement top for my desk. It is half experiment (to see if we will like the look for the kitchen) and half necessity. I am using the new desk Summer got for her office, but there is only room for one.

It took me much longer than I expected to build the ‘form’ (3 hours) and it was exhausting work. All of our ‘good’ tools were out front with Jerry so I was using all of our half broken secondary equipment which became very aggravating at times…but I was determined to set up the concrete by myself. Summer and I are at a stage in construction where we can’t afford to spend money on non-necessity things. She suggested we do more ourselves to save money, which is a hard task since the majority of what we need to finish up is all detail work (tile, kitchen cabinets, doors etc), but this was something I was perfectly capable of doing so I tackled the counter top experiment solo.

After building the form with a bunch of busted ass tools, I finally poured the concrete under the back porch at around 1:30pm and the thunder, lightning and rain was just starting…it lasted until 5:00pm. The rain really slows things down…

Back to the ‘no sheep, just sleep’ thing. Basically, I worked on labor intensive house stuff all day and when I wasn’t working on the house….I was online with my slow ‘wireless modem’ trying to get some work done. I had to skip our Monday, Wednesday and Saturday Night Poker Game last night because I was waiting for the concrete to set and we didn’t finish ‘burning’ its surface smooth until around 7:45. I told Jerry not to bring anyone to help him today that I would be his cement mixer / rock breaker and said good night to him. I let the dogs out for a few minutes…locked the front door and went to my room to read and let my back chill out. The next thing I knew it was 5:57am…my radio and reading light were both still on. No sheep to count, just deep deep sleep.