To preface this story Mr John K. Rupp loves to give lessons, he was a teacher to young apprentices and I'm sure some of them have found twelve step programs by now. His favorite lesson is "controlled demolition" with emphasis on control. I apparently haven't learned this skill because all I have to do is look at a saws-all and boy do I get a lesson. "Oh, Wendell you sure do love that saw, remember it's CON-trooolled demolition". Then we usually wrestle for control of my beauty, I mean saw.
As you maybe understanding my greatest foil in this home renovation is my father-in-law. I love to poke at him and he is a pain in the ass. However, I do have to give the man his do. From day one he has been by my side or more accurately on my back pushing my wife and I forward. Dear old father-in-law is a mule head and a few other choice adjectives, but he slept on a blow up mattress in a gutted room with little heat for weeks to finish what he started. It's really surprising he still signs of all his emails to me Dad. For all he's done he has my undying gratitude. If you are reading this post oh father-in-law, I did see what you did with the saws-all in the bedroom and you cheat at rummy.
See you next weekend? Ah, Dad.
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