I was working on an addition to our house yesterday when a heavy rainstorm came upon us. Rain was in the forecast but I wanted to get as much work done because the project is still in its infancy ( subfloor down, log walls scored for letting new walls in, not much else) So the rain starts and as I rushed to cover power tools, lumber and the subfloor I saw my wife rushing to get her laundry off the line. I could not understand why she was not helping me cover my tools. When I asked her after I was done why she felt the laundry was more important she told me it was almost dry and she did not want them to get wet again. I'm somewhat annoyed; clothes are subjected to repeated wet and dry cycles, power tools and ( some) building materials are not. True, I did not ask her to help me first but I would have appreciated her concern for the more expensive and more labile articles instead of the laundry. Am I being too hard on her and expecting too much? Sorry to make this off topic post, but maybe it is tangently connected. ( By the way, this is one of the more difficult parts of the project- letting the new stick framed wall into the existing log wall. I'd really have a difficult time if I was adding a new log wall) Marc
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18 years ago