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Did ya ever wonder what a day in the life of a plasterer is like? Of course you haven't. Being the public minded person I am, I'm gonna tell you anyway. Cause and effect. We worked Saturday from 7am till about noon. Which gave me time to come home and take a nap so I could enjoy my Saturday night. I like to stay up late and not worry about alarm clocks... or basically anything grown up. Unfortunately I am also rock solid and dependable. This is a tuff combination. So I control it. Most of the time I am very conservative but sometimes I let T have his head, in a manner of speaking. I did that Saturday night. Stayed up really late (or early) and then slept late Sunday morning. Which meant I wasn't sleepy until late Sunday night. And we started at 5am Monday. Sooo I worked a nine hour day, without a break, in 98 degree heat on three and a half hours of sleep. Cause and effect. Stucco, in case you don't know, is an exterior siding made by combining sand, water and cement and applied either with a machine or by hand. We do it by hand which is the conventional method in our area. By "hand" means scooping the stucco or "mud" onto a 15 by 15 inch flat piece of metal with a handle called a "hoc" and transferring it to a 5 inch by 12 inch trowel and smearing it over "chicken wire" basically. In an average day between four of us, we will smear about fifteen tons of mud on a house by hand. In addition to building and moving heavy scaffold. It's a hard job but keeps a guy in pretty good shape. When I was young I used to tell people they didn't want to mess with a plasterer. We punch walls for a living. Next up... Monday, Monday Enjoy the ride. All you take with you when you leave is the experience. |
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7/2/2008 12:42 am |
dont scare me!!!   joke!great seeing you blog again! well, i can see that your in good shape.. so, just wondering if you have that what we call PATIENCE since you punch wall for a living..   hey, m kidding!!have great day/night!!  daphne JuSt An OrDiNaRy GiRl WiTh XtRa OrDiNaRy DrEaMs! 
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7/2/2008 1:34 am |
MMMMM, don't think I could do that, in fact the holes in my wall that I filled with polyfiller, probably needed replastering. Are you free anytime this week Treat me with respect and I'll treat you the same 
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7/2/2008 5:31 am |
hello sir t, thanks for the 101. I had a complete different notion of what a plasterer is thanks i'll scratch your back...thats it.
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7/2/2008 8:49 am |
Blue Blazes! .. do you need some Gatorade? I know Mudding is hard work. It was great getting your mail. You have one in return. And YES, my ears were ringing. But it's all lies I tell you all lies! I don't play it safe. If I wanted to stay safe.. I would have stayed in my mother's womb.
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