It’s good from the cycle “Tips of the Elder, when there is a goal in life and even better when achieving the goal gives pleasure. This winter has left a lot of pleasant memories in my memory. This winter I helped in the construction of the frame of the house, almost every Sunday I went out of town. Think for yourself what is better: to visit the gym, then saturated, raising iron there, or it makes no sense to rotate the pedals, or to cut and nail boards, bars, and at the end of the day to admire the work done, quenching the thirst for rose hips from hot thermos, and Watch how the winter sun descends beyond the horizon?
The hardest, but at the same time, pleasant work was the installation of the middle wall of the attic with support for the skate of the roof and the subsequent laying of rafters or “frames”, as I call them. Being a man in complete dawn of strength, I felt like a Yunga on a multi -male sailing frigate, which was very similar to a gradually growing frame of the house. From physical work, I was charged with energy, which was enough for the whole week, and was looking forward to the next weekend, carefully following the weather forecast so that God forbid the wind or temperature below -20oc.
One of the weekend, the forecast promised -15oc, but in reality the thermometer in the car showed the temperature much lower, and it decreased as we move away from the city, so that -27oc was in place. But we were not scared, and just home, only having arrived, I did not want to return. The day was sunny, calm and dry air. They just started working on the sunny side and did not lose: it became warmer by dinner and the forecast began to be confirmed.