Trucks and Fences and Pianos, Oh My!

Wow! What a week it has been! 

First of all, I've been getting to drive this baby all week! I told Grandpa that he might not get his truck back after this.

Uncle Steve and his crew came in town for the weekend. I helped him build Grandma a fence. It went something like this:

And just like that it was done! (lots of sweat, a day and a half, and a couple of sunburns later) 


In honor of extra family being in town we had a cookout and then us girls played cards. Gotta get some practice in for the reunion! Danielle and I will dominate. 

Sunday we had church in the living room. My family is full of preachers.

After church I took a trip to Starkville to spend some quality time with my good friends Danielle, Ben, Jerry, and Shrek and enjoyed my first mountain dew in a month!

And then it was time to get back to work. 
 

I took all the keys off all the pianos and knocked the lead out of each one and took the pin out. 

Very tedious and time consuming but worked out well as a project to do inside in the afternoons when it was stupid hot in the warehouse. 

My least favorite part of this whole process is taking the strings and pins out. That's a lot of strings. And a lot of pins. 

 Did the first one completely by my own strength and a little wrench thing and it took me almost all day...Then we decided that was dumb and we got some reinforcements. 
 DeWalt and I quickly became friends.

I managed to do all of them with very few casualties although, sometimes strings pop .

We are only going to be able to get half of them done while I'm here this time so we moved the 4 finished ones to the door to be picked up. (that's right, grandma and I moved 4 pianos, we are pretty hardcore)

 Look at all the space we have now!

 I bet my Grandma has more tools than your Grandma.

By far my favorite part of being here has been getting to hang out with my Grandma and see where certain character traits and quirks of mine come from and why I am the way that I am.

She never seems to come across something she can't move or a screw she can't unscrew (even if I couldn't get it loose) or a project that she can't accomplish. If she sees something that needs to be done, she does it. She doesn't ask anyone else to do. 


"It's pretty amazing the things you can accomplish with a sledge hammer!" -Grandma







We've had a blast. I've learned so much from this woman in just a week and a half.











If I live to be 75 years old, I hope I'm even half as awesome as her.