Today I Buy Lumber
Today is the day that I buy lumber. It doesn’t sound like much to most, but to me it is a very important purchase. It will be the first time that a Hillebrand has purchased lumber in over five years. There are a lot of emotions swirling around in my head as I sit here at 1:21 in the morning. I can’t stop thinking that I may buy the wrong boards, or that they will be crooked, or that my tools won’t be the right ones, or it will just be too hard. I think about the countless times I have ran this errand as the ‘helper’ and how it was just an interruption to my Saturday morning cartoon watching in the past. The biggest thing I think about is can I do this? Do I have it in my hands? Am I worthy of the hammer, his hammer? Why would strolling through Home Depot and grabbing a few 2x3’s be so difficult? Well it’s actually very simple. This is the first time I have ever attempted to build something. It’s the first time I ...