Is a lay blogging

Today I played softball for the first time in nearly 2 years, and I have realized two things. My eyesight ain't what it used to be, and I am in a different kind of shape than I used to be.

In typical Jake fashion and as a true Polack, my eyes seem to be doing the opposite of what you would think they would be doing as I get older. The older I get the better I see far away, but as things close in, its a crap shoot. Anything within a foot and a half of my nose takes some effort to focus on and I can not sit within 5 feet of someone and conversate for long as my eyes will begin to ache. This makes the last 15 feet of a fly ball's flight quite interesting as it passes into my poor focal range.

Second, I can toil away at maunal labor seemingly endlessly, especially when it is less than the 100 degrees it has been here lately. But, let me swing a bat and throw a ball a couple times and I am wasted. A whole different muscle set I guess. I put on a hitting display alah Willie Mayes Hayes, but the leather was still good dispite the vision issues. And the cannon is back, a 2 year rest was just what it needed.

Anyhow, I am going to start digging my footers for the garage this weekend. Hopefully I will be able to get those done, dig the stump I missed, and remove all the loose particulate matter from the site this weekend. If I can get that done, I hope to have the gravel delivered next week so I can put it down and pack it, bend the rebar and add the metal wire. I should be able to get the concrete guys out here a week from Monday to quote forming it up and pouring it. If all goes well, weekend after next I will have a finished pad, then we will really start making hay. The framing should only take about a weekend. The rest of the stuff will take a while, but such is life. I am still hopeful for finishing the garage, entirely, by Halloween.

Last weekend we cut down 8 trees, ground 17 stumps and chipped what must have been a million branches. It was hot, dirty work. I have a picture of me after a days work grinding stumps. Check it out.... Or don't... down loading pictures on dial up is no good.