Monster Garage is Back!

Just when you thought it was safe to park your car, the spectre of Monster Garage rears its head...again! For those of you following the saga from two years ago (and perhaps you gave up thinking Monster Garage was just a fantasy), fear not: It’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

So we started Monster Garage (MG) in 2010 (please read the previous posts dear new reader), got the team shirts made, cut off and moved the old garage down the back alley, and were all prepped—then Rob’s mom in Regina decided to move in with his sister in Winnipeg—which meant we spent the rest of that summer moving her, emptying 40 years of family stuff, and getting the house ready to sell. Then in June 2011, Rob’s mom passed away and two weeks later, he started a new job... with the City of Regina (yay Rob), and moved away (ooh). Which meant another summer whooshed by without MG (too busy moving Rob and commuting).

But this year.. this year, MG is a reality. But we are still commuting, often going to Regina, the lake, and Saskatoon all in one weekend.

So we officially started site work on June 23. But Rob has been thinking about it for two years, so that has to count as well! Our first round of work consisted of trenching—relocating a gas, phone, and power line from beneath where the new concrete pad will be, to outside the new pad. Boy, those things are buried deep. And as I’m cutting the many roots around the lines, I kept having to remind myself “cut the brown root not the black wire”—kinda like the tense scenes in the movies where the hero has to decide which wire to cut when defusing a bomb. Yes, the crazy things that run through your head due to exhaustion. Oh, and we had to relocate our underground sprinklers too.

This week brings us the joy of sorting our re-bar, buying landscape ties and lumber, and prepping to have the bobcat guy come next week to break up the old pad, dig out dirt, and lay down the appropriate amount of gravel....in anticipation of concrete guy the next weekend.

Yes, the fun never ends!