A Day in the Life of my Father

Yesterday was a different kind of day. Instead of sitting around, being on the Internet, and watching TV all day, I went to work with my dad.

My dad is a carpenter and he works for himself. So the only other people he works with are family and occasionally a friend who is from the Ukraine. So he can get lonely on a job. He asked me if I wanted to come and help him. I said sure. We left around 8:30 and headed to a porch-building project in Veazie; not far from where we live (just the next town over). We managed to get the two beams built and one up before lunch. But then realized that one of the beams, (the one not up) was too crooked to be used.

We then proceeded to The Home Depot for wood. As we were parking, we met one of my uncles. My dad has 12 other siblings, but this uncle was the spouse to my father's youngest sister. We talked for a little while, got our wood and bought lunch at shaws (yoghurt, strawberries and peanut butter cookies). It wasn't until after lunch that my dad realized he had gotten the wrong size! So we went BACK to Home depot and got the right size. By this time it was raining, so we finished putting up the beam and went to visit a friend nearby for a while, then went home. By this time it was 4pm and I took a shower. Of course, blogger was down so I had to wait to tell you all about this fun day.