Workin girl!

I know I have talked before about Benny working shutdowns but you may not know what that means. Benny's company goes into power plants, shuts down part of it and then fixes whatever needs to be fixed. Some last a few weeks and others last months. Here are what the power plants his office works on look like. Talk about job security, folks will always want electricity!
Benny is the tool room manager. Basically, he has to get all the tools ready to go to the power plants so they can do their job fixing everything. He takes care of basically all the plants in Texas and Louisiana, which is a ton of tools to keep up with. Then, sometimes he has to actually go to the plants to try and make sure all the tools end up back at his warehouse. Not so easy. This weekend he had to get 5 huge game boxes (huge tool box) and 2 conex's (one was 20ft long and one was 40 ft) loaded to send to south TX. Before he had this job, he was on his tools actually fixing plants. This is a conex. It turns into the tool room once they get to the plant.

Well, I decided to go help him. He works alone and if I wanted to see him at all this weekend, I had to work. I have no problem working so he basically worked my ass off! Now I totally understand why he is so damn tired when he gets home. The tools he loads aren't little either. THANK GOD for wheel barrels but they seriously need to get him a forklift!!!

Anyway, we worked ALL day Friday and Saturday and half a day Sunday. I'm tired and sore! Poor Benny is back at it today making sure it all gets loaded on the truck right and start loading the next round of tools for another job site. I told him I wasn't doing shit today but I do plan on making him a great supper and getting a bath ready for him.

I have always appreciated what he did so that I could be a stay at home mom but after doing it for 3 days, I have a new found appreciation for him. At least I get a 4 day break before I am back at it again with him. To me that is a small price to pay to get to hang out with him all weekend.