The Shed

I invited Sanj out yesterday to help me build a little shelter/shed for the snow blower this winter.  We don't have a garage or anything.  Right now it is sitting in Tom's shack out of the weather but NOT where you want it when you want to use it.

In all fairness...Tom was not born with ANY carpenter skills what so ever..... NONE.
So add the lack of ability to put a simple puzzle together and his lack of reasoning.........that's good enough attitude and frustration from all the above, I understandably did not want his help.

So I did not tell Tom about my plan as he was going to go look for deer sign anyway.........the yucky weather had him cooped up in the house for a few days and need to go get some fresh air........

I had some 2x4's and nails.  My brother in law had some log siding and Sanj picked up some tin roofing.......When Sanj arrived I told Tom something about Sanj and I were gathering things from the woods for crafts....BUT when Harry drove in with the siding it blew my cover story right out of the water......

The look in Tom's eyes were pure terror!!! I teased we were making a deer stand for me.....he didn't laugh and I went to help Harry unload the siding.  Sanj explained we wanted to build this shed by ourselves because she wanted to learn how to do stuff like this . It was a mother- daughter thing blah blah blah........

So he decided he better stay home and "help"   I said no.....we can do this ourselves.....so he asked about my plans and I showed him a rough draft and he went on to explain all the things I already knew.......he reluctantly said "okay!

Than he decided he better stay home and help us and I said no...you go and when you get back, if we are having trouble than you can help.  He reluctantly said
"okay!"

He started the 4-wheeler to warm it up and explained a few more things on my draft that I needed to remember.....Than he decided he better stay home and help........

He finally left and we got to work..... we had the frame up and starting the siding when he came home.  "WOW "he said with a proud smile on his face....."GOOD JOB" he added........

 

WELL the next thing we know Tom is cutting our siding pieces and than he is nailing them on....with his good enough attitude they were a bit off.....at one point he said he'd do the nailing because it was too hard on us.......

He also said we weren't going to have enough siding and we would have to just use Boise felt.....come to think of it he asked me that when were we going over my plans too...he said "why don't you just use Boise felt?  I said "why would I use Boise felt when I have log siding?" He said " I guess I don't know why"

Any way we had plenty of siding. Tom's sister and husband dropped by with some things for us and that gave us time to get some on ourselves.......
 

THAN the roof....He asked if I was using tarp for the roof.....I said. "Sanj bought tin roofing.  "Oh yeah I forgot" he said. 
 

 We got the roofing on but Tom made a lot of frustrated trips into the house to release his steam valve and back out just to have to go back in again.........
Actually I was amazed that he was able to do that.  Usually he just let's her blow on the spot.  Sanj's presence made the difference.

I think what Sanj got out of the whole experience is that you don't want to do any projects with Tom around because he WILL help... "BLESS HIS HEART!"