What a F***ing Day! :

I woke up pretty darn psyched, I could hardly sleep; Today’s the day the Manhut gets built!... I’m up and outside by 10:00am, Bob comes up the driveway a few minutes later on his awesome 1986 Honda FourTrax 350 Quad (a machine so cool I had to buy the same exact year and model). A couple of smokes and some coffee later and we decide to bring up the mountain a bunch of the materials from the front lawn left by Shed Guy last night. We hangout for a while longer but by noon we decide it may be best if we both go to our homes and take a little nap since we don’t know if he’s coming and he’s not answering his cel phone (as usual). By 12:30 I’m out like a light.

It’s 3:00 and the dog starts barking, waking me up. There’s a truck in the driveway, three Mexicans are in the driveway meandering about. I find my boots and coat and make it outside as fast as I can. “Where’s Ed?” I ask. They point up the mountain. I go to the garage get my 1986 Honda FourTrax 350 Quad and go up the hill. When I get there Shed Guy is just staring into space. “What took you so long?” I ask. “It’s been a tough day " he says "and it’s just about to get a lot tougher"……

At this point it's best if I skip most of the conversation detail cause it got pretty ugly (I have cleaned it up). In summary it has to do with me being mentally unstable for wishing to build a Manhut on the most inconvenient of all possible places and how I might need to be more fiscally amiable since I would be imposing such hardship on Shed Guy and his band of merry Mexican laborers. I retort with the fact that he should have come earlier to take a look at the site which I invited him to do no less than three times while trying to explain the project as best I could, and, that when we first spoke he said and I quote; “I can build anywhere I can get my truck”…. In the end we shake hands and they begin to build.

As the foundation begins to take shape and some of the other guys show up after work I realize that I must be mentally unstable for wishing to build a Manhut on the most inconvenient of all possible places… Before the first nail is hammered we all realize that the footing for this structure just aint gonna cut it and we had better come up with a reinforcement strategy or Manhut is gonna slide off its granite perch down the mountain and into the Weave's pool.

By 6:00pm the base is built and all the wood is cut for tomorrow’s construction…