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poured a 12'x30' concrete patio yesterday :tup:

next step is to cover the top in flag stone and do my built in natural gas BBQ :yum:

priced out stone today, came out a little cheaper then I was expecting which is always nice :tup:

I think some of you guys need to come do some stuff around the house for me lol.

it can all be done………at a price $$$$ :rofl2:


kind sucks I am spending all my vacation money on my backyard :ugh2:


if only the wife wasn't on maternity leave, this backyard would have more then covered the cost of a BP kit that I want :ugh2:

Not sure if any of you have had concrete work done but whole sh!t they rape you if you have a contractor do it! My pad would have been 4x the cost then what it cost for me and my brother to do it. Sure it might have taken longer as I work throughout the day/week and can only do so much work each night but in <2weeks I had it prepped (tampered the soil, formed up and rebar in place) and ready to go :tup: yesterday was a busy day though with the pour.

now this week I can finally try to piece my Z back together and work on my power windows issue :facepalm:

First oil change on the wife's car today. Two broken (metal) oil filter wrenches, two trips to the auto parts store, and 2 hours later I'm finally done. Stupid Toyota over-torquing the oil filter housing. I'm shocked/relieved that the housing did not break given the amount of torque required to break it loose. I swapped the element and tightened to spec so, fingers crossed, next oil change will be a breeze.

To the average person, they would've just taken it to a shop, but I just love wrenching! :)

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Kate and I just cleaned out more than 400 pounds of books from our home library.

1/2 to Goodwill and 1/2 to eBay...

me just running around in circles all day. :ugh: