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   doug_hubbard | Dec 15, 2001 09:39pm | #1

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   She has to be- I just stacked and stickered 3000 feet of white pine 1x in the family room to acclimate to the house for a week or so- and she said "No problem."

   She likes sports and drinks beer too...

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   FredB | Dec 15, 2001 10:49pm | #2

   *No, she is just plotting and planning for THE BIG PAYBACK! Probably visiting with some of the other wives for some strategic advise too.Just be careful what happens while you are watching her backside...right out of left field it'll come!

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   Cloud_Hidden | Dec 15, 2001 11:02pm | #3

   *I'm guessing she'll cover the stack with a huge table cloth and say, "Guess who's coming to Christmas dinner, honey?"

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   Ron_Teti | Dec 16, 2001 12:13am | #4

   *Oh yea sure honny you can put it in there I understand...(one week later) im tired of stepping on the sh-- get it outta the house or im outta here, i told ya to pay someone butttttt noooooo!!!! you wanna do it yourself.... (Me) ok Ill get a contractor..... (next summer) waddya mean we cant go to cousins sophies for vacation that we spent all our money on getting the floor done . your just being cheap again you sound just like my dad my mom....... So the story continues....:)

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   Sandy_Winfrey | Dec 16, 2001 01:52am | #5

   *Listen to these guys, Doug....if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.....good luck and happy holidays ........Sandy

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   doug_hubbard | Dec 16, 2001 05:27am | #6

   *Oh Sandy- I posted out of playfulness- she won't care. I'll have the stuff milled and applied by the end of next week and she will be telling folks about how great I am... honest!

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   Frenchy_Dampier | Dec 16, 2001 07:35am | #7

   *Doug, Aren't women wonderful? Mine's put up with about 8000 bd.ft. of wood in our guest bedroom for well over two years now, plus she's never complained once about the mess I'm making as I build our timberframe while we live in the parts that aren't torn down. My sister is living in a tent in the living room of their new house while he is building her a new home. They've been that way since spring. Rain, snow, wind nothing bothers them. They have their mattrasson the floor and literally are camping in the shell of their new home. NOT A squak!

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   Don_Reinhard | Dec 17, 2001 07:37am | #8

   *OK, while we are playing "Can you top this...?" We are building a 35 X 90 "Butler Bldg" glass studio AND house. In Nov,1998, Highest Authority in Land (HAL) decided it was time to move into studio, even though not finished. She was sick of paying rent and commuting 35 mi each way to site every day. Only problem was that roof ended about 10 ft shy of where toilet would sit, and toilet couldn't be installed till steel roof got past it to allow scaffolding to run over floor. Naturally, it rained the second night we were in it. Dropped below freezing the next couple of nights. Took two weeks to get rest of roofing installed, w/ time out to put in toilet, of course. At Christmas, took first shower in enclosure by filling an igloo w/ water heated on gas grill and having spouse push button so you could get water. This idea came from kids who were vets of Desert Storm and winters at Grafenwoer. Grand daughters bathed in big ice chest while toasting marsmallows over campfire outside. If all goes well, we will be in house this winter. Meanwhile, we watch scorpions run across floor and dump sameout of shoes. HAL can dump a scorpion and smack it with shoe without even a pause in conversation. Kids talk about us living in a warehouse - no, it's not that refined, but it is full of sheetrock, insulation batts, doors, windows, plumbing fixtures, ad nauseum. And it's all her idea. I could write an unimbellished nonfiction book about this experience that would make Dave Barry look like a humorless prune. Nice to see Andy'scomment that none of the eds of FHB live in a finished house - sounds like not many of us do!Don

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   Tesaje_ | Dec 17, 2001 03:54pm | #9

   *so much for stereotypes.My ex and I moved into our shell before there was a toilet - spent the first month using a portapotty, but I did insist on hot water and a working shower. Didn't mind the construction mess or the cold, but I had to have a hot shower. She's got me beat.Mary

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   Wolverine_ | Dec 17, 2001 04:10pm | #10

   *Ya know, hub - I always wondered about that! ;-)

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   Lisa_Long | Dec 18, 2001 01:46am | #11

   *Adding onto our last house, the entire back was ripped off and the roof was gone (putting trusses onto a flat top). Our twins were about 12 months old. Just as the temperature hit 110 degrees, the twins came down with chicken pox. Not much I could do but sit them in the tub all day to keep their fevers down. We entertained ourselves by counting the number of finches that flew through the house and watching the workmen through the plastic sheets that served as the exterior bathroom wall. At least we had a toilet, and no scorpions!

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   doug_hubbard | Dec 18, 2001 05:32am | #12

   *Yeah- my wife is a saint- she's like a female Jesus off in the desert, fasting and happy, and here comes Satan (played by me) to try her patience and feed her apples. Guess I'm mixing my biblical references- but you get the idea...

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   kai_ | Dec 18, 2001 06:10am | #13

   *i Guess I'm mixing my biblical references- but you get the idea... Yep :-) One of my GFs mixes things all the time--I wish I'd written them all down, but one today came out ". . . chickens in the wind" LOL! I think part of it was abt not counting one's chickens before they hatch, and I have no clue about the wind--maybe cast your fate/throw caution to the? "You can't kill a bird w/two stones" is the other I recall. She's a gem.

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    xJohn_Sprung | Dec 21, 2001 03:42am | #14

    *I can add one: In ancient times, they had no cars or modern conveniences, so they had to do all their walking by hand. ;-)-- J.S.

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   doug_hubbard | Dec 21, 2001 03:42am | #15

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