Yesterday was a beautiful hot and sunny day. We spent most of the day working outside catching up with the yard work that has been neglected for the past two weeks. Stuart stopped by for a visit and showed us his new company car. A nice steak BBQ for dinner and an early night. We are still recovering from our travels and the lack of sleep the night before our return flight.
This morning we were up early and on the road to Orillia. Our friend Tom Jarvis is building a steel Quonset on his property. We had volunteered to give him a hand. He needs to bolt together 27 arches. Each arch is comprised of 7 pieces of steel. There are 12 bolts in each joint. Four of us managed to build 10 arches in the 4 hours we worked at it. It was extremely hot and no shade where we were working. I forgot to get pictures but took these from the internet.
We didn't put any of the arches up, just put them together. This will give you an idea.
After building 10 we were exhausted and stopped for lunch and lots of cold water. After he gets them all built than the next step will be to lift them up, one at a time, and bolt them together. Interesting. I have seen hundreds of these buildings but have never seen one put together before. Learn something new everyday.
We left there and stopped to visit our friends Ron and Pat MacKenzie. Pat insisted that we stay for dinner.
After a lovely dinner and a nice visit we headed for home. We got about 13 km north of Barrie when we ran into a traffic jam. Traffic was backed up for miles as far as you could see. We hopped off as soon as we could and took the back roads home.
Nice weekend. Now time to get back to the exercise programs and get life back to normal. Tom is still recovering from his cold. Tomorrow he will be able to add lots of sore muscles also.
Until next time - safe travels.
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