My trucker hubby and my gate

My hubby drives truck for a living, I love him anyway he's cute except his mustache is too long but short of shaving it off him while he's sleeping (and then we would probably meet in divorce court) well you know I like him anyway. This means he's away from us for 10 days and then comes home for four over and over again it's not a bad deal we've had worse jobs where he's been away for weeks and only home for a day or two.

So when he does come home his honey do list is usually big, and he's usually tired and so we go round and round sometimes things get done, sometimes they don't but it's all good. I can use a hammer and a drill and those wrench things when I need to I'm just that kind a gal (hah). Here's the thing though there are just some jobs I am not mentally wired for like building a gate I can't do it, well I could try but I'm pretty sure it would look like something a four year old would build with popsicle sticks. So I've asked for a small gate why? Well I run a dayhome you see and I need to keep the children in the yard and not running down the side of the house it's just safer this way (I can see them better not that I have that many to see). Just so you know the whole yard is fenced and gated and the children can't get out, I would just prefer to have the side of the house blocked off.

Getting back to the gate I asked for it two weeks ago, really it's not any bigger than a baby gate but it will weather better outside if it's made with good sturdy wood. Is it made yet? Nope.... Why? Because my trucker hubby does not WANT to make the gate. If he'd just said

Trucker hubby: "I don't really want to make this gate"
Me: "Okay, but I need the gate, so if you don't want to do it I'll get someone who can"
Trucker hubby: "Okay go hire someone who wants to make the gate"

I would have done that and the gate would be up but nooooo, I challenged him by telling him I didn't think he wanted to make the gate (big mistake I know better)and that if he really didn't want to do it I'd find someone who could, sometimes my head is up my a**. So he started the gate, that's right it's started but not finished. He started this very small gate on Friday, it's Wednesday he's back to work and we won't see him again until the Friday after next.

Oh the gate is framed but unfinished I may have it by the end of summer or I may just hire someone to finish it (that might be a bad thing to do). I love my trucker hubby I really do he's cute and he's sweet and he loves me. The gate can wait a little longer.