Busy Weekend

On Saturday the big task was to insulate the kitchen crawl space. I had previously hired a local contractor to do it and he did all of the other crawl spaces but he could not do the kitchen. It is an area about 8' x twenty something' and only 16" high. When the contractor came 2 weeks ago to do it, his belly would not fit in the opening. So on this Saturday, he hired, through me, my son, Jon.
Actually we did it together and he got paid $125 for 3 hours of work. It was tough work. I started, using 2' x 10' Styrofoam sheets 1.5" thick. I laid on my back face up with the first sheet. There is no room to swing a hammer, so I used a air driven hammer connected to my compressor. We had flashlights attached to out heads to see. I had to squiggle like a worm to get inside. After the first one was in, Jon wiggled in as far as he can go. We worked together holding and driving in the nails. We worked as far as we could with the spacing narrowing down to a few inches from our chest. He was at least 10' in further in than me.
When you are under a crawl space with these foam sheets above you, there is nothing to grab on to. Moving about is also complicated with the fact your knees don't bend very far. So we both had to wiggle and squirm to get out.
And that was the project for Saturday.

On Sunday, we wanted to go tubing at Holiday Valley. Jon wanted his friends Matt, Jordan, & Evan to go. Their ages are between 8 and 13. Uncle Ed and his daughter Amanda wanted to go too. So when the kids got back from Church we borrowed Matt, Jordan, & Evan's family van and off we went. Incidentally, Katie did not want to go.
Holiday Valley was a blast. We got there at 1:30 and left at 3:30. The weather was perfect, around 30 degrees. but rain was approaching later in the day.
You start by grabbing a tube. It is about the size as a truck tire with a plastic side which goes against the snow. The hill is long and fast and fun.

Matt, Jordan & Evan stayed over because there was no school on MLK day. So I worked till noon and we watched movies all day. They left at 7:00 pm.

It was a fun weekend.