Building my house

[nadir]

Nope, not my own house. I got screwed (my psyche ) before i did any real work, hence i never had money (but always time, which is a good thing too ).
The best i reached was said trailer. Seen that way i think i got the idea of it (i had to build a lot on my own there). If you go to kelsoos blog and look at some of the pictures i think it is more clear what i mean by a trailer (german is: Bauwagenplatz, its a political thing, i can't explain it any better).
The poem is by Nietzsche, who was an individualist. I think that relates -somehow- to a self-build house. Perhaps
(just say that cause you said "scary" ).

[mharrison]

There is nothing like living in the house you have built with your own 2 hands. Someone who has never built a house would never understand, and someone who has would never need an explanation.

I think the same could be said for the person who may not have built the house, but has completely remodeled it on their own....however, I have no idea how I am going to put the brick patio/grill my wife is asking me to build in.

[JohnDeere630]

@Nadir... Maybe scary wasn't the best word..my point was that I usually don't really get what a poet is trying to say, as I tend to be quite a literal person. Allegory and metaphors are often lost on me. With Neitzsche it is different...I can usually relate to what he is saying for some reason.

[JohnDeere630]

There is nothing like living in the house you have built with your own 2 hands. Someone who has never built a house would never understand, and someone who has would never need an explanation.

I think the same could be said for the person who may not have built the house, but has completely remodeled it on their own....however, I have no idea how I am going to put the brick patio/grill my wife is asking me to build in.

I have done both building new and remodeling old, and I can say that building new is much easier than remodeling, by an order of magnitude at least! My hat is off to all the hard-core remodelers out there!

@Mharrison...I feel your pain. Masonry work can be a bitch to the inexperienced. I won't mention how bad my first attempt at a chimney 20 years ago was... Now I can do bricks, blocks, glass block and tile, but only after some professional instruction and a lot of practice. I wish I lived closer...it'd be great to work on a project where someone else was buying the materials...

[bmc5311]

figured this was as good a thread as any to post this....

harder to find some of the old pictures then I thought it would be -

my older brother on the B, me on the 2010 - stuck in the mud, we were pulling out boulders from one of the fields...
maybe 1975 or there abouts...

[JohnDeere630]

Haven't visited this thread for awhile...my house is very nearly finished. I am just finishing up the stone fountain in our sun-room. I'll post some pics when I get around to it. Basically its a 3 tier waterfall I built using field stones and mortar. I built it for my wife, so she can sit in the sun-room in the winter with the metal-halide sunlamps shining on her banana and orange trees and listen to the trickling water. It's as close as I can get to her native Philippines here in Maine during the winter. There isn't much I wouldn't do for her. She's a keeper, that's for sure!

[Kuze]

Nice job on the house , had me laughing too at "business everywhere" . Kudos and congratulations on the new wife and new house . Says a lot about a persons character to come back from stuff like that.

[jheaton5]

You do realize he makes 190 proof from sugar beets? A snort of that and you can tolerate anything.

[Kuze]

That explains it

[JohnDeere630]

You do realize he makes 190 proof from sugar beets? A snort of that and you can tolerate anything.

Be nice, or I won't share!