A week of Saturdays.

In the self-employed construction world, we often say its feast or famine.  When its feast, you could work 14 hours per day every day, just wanting a day off.  When its famine, its hard to know what to do with yourself after week after week of nothing.

Rarely, you might get an unexpected reprieve in the middle of the feast.  This week, a management and weather delay of an out of state job presents me with what amounts to a week of Saturdays.  Days that are not entirely free from work, but are open for the taking.

Here in the country, we often say that there is ALWAYS something to do.  So here are a few things we do if we have a week of Saturdays in the middle of the busy times:

-Burn the Econoline-Van-Sized brush pile on a rainy day/night.  (check)
-Fix the generator that's been broken for a year (check)
-Clean up the:
                   -shop
                   -house (check)
                   -van
                   -office
                   -shed

-Coffee and:
                 -pancakes (check)
                 -eggs (check)
                 -bacons (check)
                 -toast (check)
                 -pastries (check)
                 -cream (check)
                 -biscotti (check)

-Study for Massachusetts Construction Supervisors License Exam
-Design a timber frame shed
-Design a timber frame Sugar Shack
-Sleep(more)
-27 more things that I'll think of.

Back to the regular days of the week on Monday.