Day 165: Sunday - not going to be a day of rest this week... Work up sore from playing with Project X. Heather made Bacon and Omelettes for breakfast, well Lawson wanted crumpets and eggs with yokes, I think she broke a yoke and got yelled at for it. I went into the basement and worked on the sled... toyed around with a few ideas, then hobbled together something that looked like it would work. Hmm... testing phase, maybe I should let the glue dry a little bit first. I set things aside and head up for lunch. Soup, Heather made some home made mushroom soup... which would explain are that running about she had been doing earlier looking for dried mushrooms we apparently didn't have... I know I bought brown mushrooms... we have a dehydrator, I can make some for you... and she explained that there was no point because she was just going to put them in water anyway and rehydrate them... I gave up... the soup was good... ok it needed more cheese, I don't think she put any in... how can you have mushroom soup without cheese? SideKick came by to check on the progress of Project X, he brought some more supplies... he even helped push some more wood into the saw... we got everything cut to length... well everything we have on hand that is... Lawson got commissioned to carry the one pile of wood into the basement to be ripped into 2" wide strips. 40ish boards down... then 120 back up. I showed the sled to SideKick, pushed a length of pipe through the saw enclosed in the sled... it seemed to work on the piece I had... the pieces he brought were not the same (DOH!) half of them have flared ends and don't fit nicely like the straight one did... and I have to remember to push them through lid first to keep the lid from coming off... so there are a few bugs to work out but it looks like it will make the job easier and have much better results. At some point in there I did plane some more lumber... I forget when... I think I'm blocking... what a horrible job to do. The cheaper the wood, the farther you are away from finishing your project... I need a sign to hang in the basement with that on it to remind me which wood to buy from now on. LOL SideKick went home for dinner, the rest of the family kinda went next door for a little visit, their grand kids were over and Lawson likes to play with them, the one boy is almost the same age as him. We sat around on the deck and chatted for a while past dinner. Eventually Heather made a break for the house to once again forage in the kitchen for something for us all to eat. Shortly after I followed, leaving the boy outside to play. She had pizza on deck, crust was on the way in the oven and chicken and her home made BBQ sauce was on deck amongst a variate of other toppings. It was good... going to have to remember the BBQ sauce thing. After dinner it didn't take long before everyone was asleep, Heather crashed first, then the boy, then the man.