Yay! Thanks to my semi retired Daddy, I am making some money this week!
My hands are going to look like shit by the end of next Tuesday but by Bridget, I am going to have some ready cash!:D And not have to go to the bank to pull it!
My Daddy is a machinest. When I was younger his shop use to be small engines/machining and as I got older, he slowly phazed out the small engines because he couldn't lift the engines (lawn mower, dirt bikes/motor bikes, chain saws, tillers, and other things with small engines) the way he should because of his knees.
The last year or so my Daddy's buisness has picked up. He has never ran it the way he should have but that is a whole different story there. Well this week he picked up two BIG sharpening jobs (which is his bread and butter) from two different manufacturing companies. One that makes the expandable ladders for Fire Engine Trucks (I got to see the CO Springs Finished Truck in pictures before it was revealed in CO a few years back) and another company that I have no clue what they do. And at the same time he picked up some more crap for a HUGE on going job for a company that makes various agures. Well since the last job is on going, he needs the sharpening jobs out of the shop ASAP and he has been bugging me for a few years off and on to apprentice under him and maybe take over the family buisness. I just have no real want to do that but working for him occasionally is okay!
And that is exactly what I am doing this week and some of next week. Yesterday, I helped clean up his shop and got all the metal shavings swept up and out and then I learned how to sharpen drill bits. My Daddy didn't just set the grinder up but showed me how to do that and then showed me how to sharpen bits. It is hardern then it looks but it is a simple job if that makes since. Today, I am finishing out drill bits and then I am being moved to another grinder where I will be shown how to set that one up and then shown how to grind down the shafts for the argures to the proper deminsion.
My Dad isn't happy that I have to leave early today to get cleaned up and put "Mom" clothes on but he also understands that my kids will come first over any job be it for him or someone else. And I am only working a few hours on Friday also because Randy has a full day off. And we have to go pick some things up from the County Sheriff Department (I'll tell you about that later)
I am just happy that Bridget is with me all this week and next week to help me work with this metal! I am very happy to get out of hte house even if it is down to my folks' place to work for my Dad!
