What did you do on Saturday?

If you own a home, your Saturdays are like ours and if you don't have to go somewhere, you have a long list of things to do in and out of your house.  And if you have a "crazy" wife like Gary has, you are in the middle of a major redo in the backyard---one of those projects that started out with one thing and now has mushroomed into something else completely different.  (Sorry, Gary!)  I keep telling him in 10 years it will look great.  It is just getting it from here to there that is such a lot of work.

After the deck work at our house and Gary's sister's home last summer, we had collected a lot of old redwood because I thought I might want a wooden path around the edge of our house for our dogs to run on (they like to "patrol" our fence line and totally ruined the grass in that area.)  However after having a new fence put around our above the ground pool, we have wandered down some other options and decided to do a wood chip type of path for them.  Then we had to get rid of the wood.  Now Gary doesn't just want to throw the wood away (that is a waste, of course) so we decided to cut it up to use for our firepit.  So that is what we did on Saturday----hauled and cut redwood planks and also cut some logs from trees we cut down last year.  Here is our finished firewood pile complete with redwood base.

Now the amazing thing is not our finished wood pile but how it came to be cut.  We decided to borrow Gary's dad's table saw.  Gary went off on Saturday morning to pick it up from the garage at his mom's.  A little while later he returned with the saw in the trailer, then he tells me how heavy it is and he is not sure how to get it off the trailer.  (He should never have put it in the trailer in the first place by himself. I am not sure even now how he did it.)
He puzzled about it for a bit and then came up with these ingenious plan.  By using pullys already
 installed in our garage ceiling (due to prior years activities with Webelos Scouts--another benefit of Scouting in our life--see prior post), Gary tied a rope with a series of knots (which he learned in Scouts) and then attached the rope onto the truck. As he drove the truck forward, it lifted the table saw enough so that we could place the stand underneath it and get it ready for use.  It was a work of art.  Gary is one smart guy and very handy to have around.

Using brains instead of brawn for this job.

The rope was tied to Gary's pickup truck.
As it went forward it pulled the saw up.



Putting it on the stand.

Our Webelo pullys

Scout knots come in handy!

Now if it will only work so well to get it back safely to Gary's mom's house!!!!