The tools for building.

[edkemper]

The only time I am allowed in the kitchen is when I carry groceries in. Otherwise, that is the one room that BELONGS to my wife. She used to own and work in restaurants. So, we rarely go out to dinner. My bride can cook just about anything and does it all well.

In the house we build? I will be allowed to be in the kitchen while I build. Then I am banned. We've been married for going on 9 years. We have probably only eaten out 2 dozen times since we met. Excellent food, excellent cook, excellent presentation and the desire to thank her regularly and properly.

[rocklock]

We've been married over 8 years
brutal honesty

Several things - brutal honesty doesn't work.
I've been married over 8 years as well... actually 48 years.

I worked my way through school as a cook and baker. I still take classes. I still am learning. I found this "Rediscovering the Lost art of cooking" in a series called The Everyday Gourmet. I learned a bunch. When I was cooking or reading a cook book it would say something like brown the meat. This course will explain why, which is very important.

Don't buy the course and give it to your wife. Buy it for your self and share...

[edkemper]

Brutally honest? First marriage?

I'm old enough to have learned to be brutally honest. I am brutally honest knowing that I am the luckiest guy in the world and I know that there isn't an argument worth winning. 25 years being single? I'm good with being wrong whenever she needs me to be as long as she keeps allowing me to be her husband.

The only problem I have with my wife is that she now wants to learn to operate the backhoe. I'm smart enough to know when there's a line perhaps we shouldn't cross. For my own health.

Not only did I wake up to her smiling face this morning, but this is what she had to share with me.

OutMyFrontDoor.jpg

[panderson03]

Mr Kemper, you are truly blessed, and very wise. Merry Christmas

[2Determined2Quit]

Whether it's learning about how to build a log cabin, what tools to use, eating muffins, or listening to men speak so highly of their women....this forum always gives me warm fuzzies and a few chuckles
Merry Christmas to all of you.

P.S. All i want for Christmas is..... for it to be Feb already!!

[panderson03]

merry Christmas, Determined.
it already feels like you're one of the family!

[edkemper]

Mr Kemper, you are truly blessed, and very wise. Merry Christmas

"Mr." Kemper was blessed and was married to my mother for almost 60 years.

Me? I'm Ed, Eddie, Hey you, Knucklehead, etc., you get the idea.

But blessed? God is good and he/she has a sense of humor.

When I think of blessed, I think of your avatar. You ain't doing so bad yourself.

May Santa be generous.

[bkinmore]

The winch can work fine but the LHBA way is a pretty tried and true method. It all gets a good explanation just before lunch on the second day of class.




PS... There will be enough room to pull the rope.

Regarding your telehandler....what lift and boom ability is needed?

[loghousenut]

Regarding your telehandler....what lift and boom ability is needed?

Who said anything about telehandlers?

Mine is a 9,000 lb with a 35' boom. Bigger or smaller works too. Handy tool.

[allen84]

Regarding your telehandler....what lift and boom ability is needed?

Depends on the size of your dogs