Spring Cleaning!!

We gave our garage some much needed attention the weekend before last (10th & 11th). I worked from 6:30am-9:00am and then we went over to the garage, on both days. We finished the paneling and cleaned up all the dust and dirt, moving every piece of equipment out of the way to do so.

We then moved all the garbage from the side of the garage that we had tore out to do the remodeling, to the alley for big garbage pickup. Sorry Doug, no goods here. We now have a restriction of 4 cubic feet for our pickup this year. Which is so dumb...the city bitches and moans that people need to clean up their shit, but then they put a limit on it, RETARDED!!! So I measured out a 12 ft by 12 ft square and attempted to pile everything we had in it, hoping to go no higher than 12 ft high. We had a whole stack of railroad ties and would have gone over our "limit" so we loaded them in my sister's pickup and took them to her curb since she didn't have much put out. After that we tore out all the trees and roots next to the garage. There were a whole bunch, and MY GOD for ROOTS!! Trees really amaze me. We found roots that went all the way along the side of the garage. We had to use the pickup and a chain to rip them out. That part was fun! Then Derek cut up all the trees and we took them to the city's recycling center. Lots of loading and unloading, lifting and moving, bending and...bending, you get the idea.

On Saturday we moved Derek's hot rod from Black Magic to the garage...all by ourselves. Last time we moved it we got to use a wedge bed truck and which pulled it up onto the trailer with a winch. Well, this time they were both being used so we had to push it up onto a trailer with just the two of us! And did I mention that the car is so thrown-together that the front wheels aren't connected so they each want to go their own direction. Plus I'm kinda weak when it comes to upper arm strength, so it pretty much sucked! But after 3 tries we finally got the front end on the trailer. That's right, just the front end. Cuz the car is so low that the body got caught up on the trailer. After an hour of dinking around with it and welding some pieces back together we finally got it. Here's some pics of our hard work!!

Here sits all my hard work, on this trailer...
And finally in the Garage!!!!

Derek cleaning so fast, the flames on his coat are on fire.
That's right, I'm wearing pink working gloves. I have blue, green, and purple ones too.
Trees....
Trees no more!
See, Doug, no good stuff!