“How could we make this enjoyable?” Although it was a basic question, the answer wasn’t that easy—it’s not easy to make cold rain and construction work enjoyable. So we started brainstorming as we continued hanging the siding: What if we got the kids from inside the home and asked them to help us? What if we raced to see who could hang the most siding the quickest? What if we sang aloud like a couple of idiots while we hung the siding? What if we did terrible impressions of Robert DeNiro and Christopher Walken working construction? What if we did jumping jacks in the rain every five minutes to
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