| Re: SATURDAY MORNING |
Subject: Re: SATURDAY MORNING by teebee on 2022/2/13 4:43:25 Hey guys, been pretty busy the last few days. Weather today was really pretty nice for mid February. 60 on thursday, 58 yesterday, but only 45 today. Wednesday evening at our KofC meeting Father, during his report, threw me a huge curve, saying, that some major changes were happening in the church. Most of which I've been privy too...electrical updates/upgrades, painting the entire inside moving some pews and building a platform for the choir/musicians and new carpeting. Well, "the electrical has been done, the painting is going to be completed early next week and we have ordered the carpet which will be in and ready to install in a couple weeks." WTH? I thought we were going to do some fund raising things before we ordered and had the carpet installed? This would give me a few months to get the Pews moved and modified and the platform built. This revelation kicked me in the gonies. So, Thursday, I decided I'd better try and do some of that. I had to remove the "modesty panel" in front of the front pew, remove the front pew, cut it down 43", put it back together and move it to the other side (where our music/choir has been for 35 or so years). So Thursday, I got part of that done. I recruited my friend, Bob, former student, church member, contractor to help me. Friday, I went back to finish that, Remove the 'modesty panel" from the other side, cut it down 64" and move it back about 40" in line with the one on the other side. The only thing left was to bring back a pew that had been removed years ago and put up in the old 'choir loft' and put it back in it's original place. No problem, right? AH, the pew is nearly 16' long, heavy (solid oak) no way it go down the stairs, so has to go over the front rail and down to the floor on end. So Bob and I are trying to figure out who we could get to help us and Father makes a few calls and within 30 minutes, we have 6 KofC members here to help and we get this monster down and in place. But, after placing it, I realize I'm going to have to cut this one down too, to make it look right. By now, it is after 5pm and we just decide to call it a week, and just rope off the pews we changed/moved so no one uses them this weekend. They are not attached to the floor, we still need to finish drilling holes in the concrete floor and add the anchors to the last one. I told them, I was committed to another job today, so I would have to come back next week to finish that up. So about 6:30pm I grab GS#3 and we go to the storage shed and load up the cabinets we were installing today and then back to the shop to gather and load the tools we would need. At 8 this morning, Rosie and I pick up GS and head over to the 'city' to install the cabinets. We finished that little job and got home in time for me to clean up and change into my "official time keeper" clothes to work the basketball game at 2pm. Tomorrow, Rosie and I will make our traditional pilgrimage, for her birthday/Super Bowl celebration at the casino in Dodge City. Not going over very early, probably late afternoon. |
