Lately my social life is nonexistent and the only people in my social circle (outside of work) are those that are willing and able to lend a hand (and hopefully not donate a finger) towards my current home improvement project: preparing for carpet install. To recap, I left you all at the point where I was ripping up carpet, padding and staples. (See also, bloodletting.)
The next step was getting this pile of nastiness to the dump, which was accomplished thank to my friend Joe who met me with a truck and a willingness to hurl rolls of carpet through the air.
Next came the fun part: POWER TOOLS. An air compressor-driven chisel, to be exact. I made plans to meet Mom & Dad at 6 p.m., but got waylaid leaving work and ended up being 20 minutes late. My amazing mom was mowing my jungle of a yard (hey, I haven’t been home — don’t judge!), and I rushed inside to see this:
That’s right, my wounded father with the almost-severed left index finger that is still swollen and barely bendable had almost completely finished chiseling all of the 27 six-by-six-inch burnt sienna-colored tiles up from in front of my fireplace. Luckily, since I wanted to try using the air chisel, there was still a decent layer of Thinset left to work up off of the concrete. And doubly-lucky, my friend Chris reported in order to give me someone to pass the chisel off to when my arms got tired.
I’m so glad that I’ve learned to say “Hell yeah, c’mon over and I’ll find you a job!” when people volunteer to help… I guess I had to learn at some point, right?!
Now I just have to work on getting home before my parents report for duty, because MAN, THEY WORK QUICKLY!
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