13

Number 13 unlucky for some. Right about now big daz is clutching his face moaning "my eyes my eyes" personally I don't think I look too bad for a 40 year old :) Yes today I captured your common or garden variety of Swedish carpenter in his natural habitat wearing his summer uniform.

 

It took me forever to do this self portrait, and I went through a whole range of facial expressions most of which made me look like I was either in pain or miserable. I finally managed one where I looked normal. If I posted the ones I took in the works van with my iphone you would probably be bent double laughing, they certainly made me laugh.

 

Monday, I enjoyed mine, Slow Joe was in another city working, which is probably a good thing, lets face it even a city of 60,000 only has so much toilet paper.

 

I am still working on that house I talked about in earlier posts, and now I have ripped out everything there are only external walls remaining. I have gutted it completely and the sad thing is it looks 1000 % better now than it did the first day I set foot inside. A couple of text messages cheered me up in the morning when it was cold and dark, it was -8 this morning but the coldest place in Sweden today was -35 so no complaints from me there. The day has been pretty much plain sailing since then. Just lots of sawing and hammering.

 

Slow Joe turned up in the afternoon and managed to carry out two pieces of floor over a 2 hour period. I tried to give him the easy job of sawing floor into manageable sizes thinking it would go faster if I did the heavy lifting. Joe thought that was a bit too technical. You can't get angry with Joe though, it would be like kicking a puppy, so things moved along at Joe speed until 1600.

 

A quick trip down to town after work for some supplies and a photography magazine, that will probably end up on the pile that I keep meaning to read but am too busy eating cooking or taking pictures.

 

Good news for the lady of the house, she now getting a completely new bathroom too, in the end we are practically building a new house, it's a shame we aren't I really don't like the look of some of the walls, but that's the insurance companies decision. If you have been following the story then you will remember the cash boxes that were built into the wall in a secret stash. Well it seems the people in the office got far too curious about what was in them so they asked a locksmith to open them ... I thought they would contain money but nooooo hundreds and hundreds of tax returns were inside, bizarre.

 

More good news we got the asbestos tests back today (funny considering I have been working there for a week) so no asbestos in the house, not strictly true since I removed some today´, but we won't tell anyone I did that since I am not supposed to remove it as I don't have the special asbestos education.

 

I tried all manner of looks, locations and lighting for this shot, flash, no flash, black backdrop, no backdrop, hall, kitchen, bedroom. Then add to that running back and forth to the camera, trying to smile normally, which I find quite hard standing in front of the camera for some reason. So it's taken me quite a while to finish, but I did have fun, especially when I remembered how the ones from the van looked :)

 

I hope you enjoyed number 13 and I hope you have a great evening and an even better Tuesday

 

Almost forgot.

 

Music for today

 

"Love bites" - Def Leppard

"Fortunate Son" - Creedence Clearwater revival

"Go" - Pearl Jam

 

 

 

 

Done