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Where once there was not, now there is shed.
And if I
figured out how to get that picture I took off of my phone and onto this blog,
then you can see proof of that fact just to the left side of your screen. If I didn’t,
well enjoy this picture of a cat dressed like a carpenter and take my word for
it.
I, as a
single individual, constructed that shed all by myself, using very little more
than my own two hands, the rest of my arms, my legs and I feel like my internal
organs and probably my brain played pretty important roles in the process as
well.
I mean,
you should be impressed by that, even though for a skilled constructioner such
as I, the amount of work I put into building a structure of that magnitude was
pretty much equal to me just walking outside and announcing “Let there be shed!”
It was
just that easy.
Of
course, nothing I said there was in any way accurate. My girlfriend’s father did
literally all of the hard stuff. My role was more of the grunt/go-fer variety.
Something I could handle.
I did a
lot of smaller stuff, put in a few screws, nailed some stuff down, held a thing
or two in place. It’s all very technical really, but in my own not humble
opinion, I am a damn fine helper very nearly some of the time.
The
reason I can’t commit to any more than that is because I’m almost embarrassingly
easy to distract.
Case in
point, about two weeks ago, we were working on putting the front, or as I like
to call it, the face on the shed and get its teeth (the doors) all straightened
out.
Things
were rolling along nicely when it happened: A dog appeared in the yard behind
ours.
Now
look, it would be a lie to say that the very presence of a dog wouldn’t be
enough to distract me a least a tiny bit from the task at hand under normal
circumstances. But I usually have the wherewithal to get it together after a
few minutes of shouting “PUPPY!” both vocally and in my mind.
However,
these were hardly normal circumstances. The house behind ours, the one with
this dog suddenly running around the yard, had been empty for months.
Even
weirder, the dog looked familiar.
