We love our house, but space is becoming an issue as our children get bigger and we accumulate more things (okay it's probably more of the more things part, but...). Brock has moved his desk to the garage as a concession to keeping the guest room as a guest room (You're welcome to all of our future guests, lol). But in moving to the garage, we realized that Florida heat and a garage make for a really hot working environment. So, Brock insulated the garage door and bought a portable AC unit. That helped but still, it was pretty warm. So we went to Lowe's (the answer to anything) and bought GreenFiber insulation for the attic space above the garage. We chose this insulation for many reasons, but first and foremost because it was NOT fiberglass. It is a natural fiber and it can be blown into the attic which would mean that we could blow it under the already existing floor that we put down so we would have more storage. Okay, so you are wondering what Mike Rowe has to do with any of this. Well, let me tell you. For those of you who do not watch Discovery, Mike Rowe has a show called "Dirty Jobs" and he travels around the country and showcases the jobs that most of us would never want to do. Well, the "easy to install" wording on the packaging and the photo of the clean woman dumping the fiber into the blower made me think (sorry, assume and we all know what that means) that the job would be easy and clean. WRONG! The first clue was when we had the first bag of fiber in the hopper and it was blowing dust and tiny pieces of fiber well above my head, but did I pick up on that major clue... of course not! So Brock takes his hose into the attic and I keep the hopper/blower machine full of fiber. Things were going great for the first five minutes until I opened the slide too far and let too much fiber into the hose... CLOG! Great, now we are shaking the extremely long hose trying to dislodge my clog. Now you are probably wondering where the fiber from the clog is going to go. Well, let me tell you... All over the garage! Fantastic!!! Okay, so we dislodge the clog. I adjust the slide so that the perfect amount is going to the hose and I keep the hopper full. Now keeping the hopper full may sound like an easy task but it was not. The fiber comes vacuum packed in the plastic wrapping so it must be torn open and then pulled apart by hand very slowly as to not drop any large chunks into the hopper which might cause another clog. We finished the little project in about an hour and a half which is really good considering we hadn't done anything like this before. But it was a very dirty hour and a half. So I want to know... Mike Rowe, where were you? I had a dirty job and you were no where to be found!
