I still had a productive weekend even if I initially felt like I didn’t. I gathered a bunch of supplies for the house on Friday, shoring up some loose ends there. I secured a 200 L rain barrel for the back yard that doesn’t look too out of place, along with a length of hose that will reach all of the fruit trees, raspberries, and the grapes. The strawberries are too far away, and more of a nuisance than a food source. The bunnies tend to eat them all anyway, so while we do technically have them, they don’t really factor in unless I make some pretty serious changes to the bed they’re in. I don’t see that happening this year. I could change my mind. So setting up the rain barrel meant adjusting the downspout, but this house must have had a collection barrel here before because the cinder block base, and height of the elbow in the downspout were spot on. I took off one extension piece and it all slid right in under the spout with nary a millimeter to spare.
I also had the chance to work on the garage on some Girl Guide turtle boxes. I cut the 2×4’s down to size. Cut out a 3×1 inch hole on every single panel (twenty panels in all), then I prefilled recessed pilot holes for the 3″ deck screws, and cut the four wire mesh panels needed to cover the tops of the turtle boxes. I put one together as a test run with the hammered in staples. So that project is good to go for my wife’s guide unit on Tuesday.
Felt good to be active in the shop. Didn’t hurt that it was above ten degrees celsius so I was at least somewhat comfortable in the shop. It’s not a furniture build, but it felt good to get outside and do something constructive! I have my eye on building a cherry table to run along the back of the couch, which would allow us to take down the dogs crate, since we just use it as a shelf to put shoes on, or hold stuff. The dog crate is big, heavy, and in the way quite a bit every single morning. Part of me wonders if I could move the children’s mini couch to the basement when we do the table, and really open up the front hall.
I think I even started to put the hats, mitts. And gloves and such away on Friday. So obviously we had some snow yesterday. Naturally. I need to move boots, snow pants. And jackets and helmets too, but alot of those items need to be washed first, and in some cases repaired. Stitching up tears and torn seams. Should be fun.
Although I don’t think we entirely ready to roll over into spring and begin the deep cleaning process. Purge & clean is coming soon! We’ll have donations, garbage bags of trash, and items ready to go to the cottage for the younger niece and nephew. All a part of the cycle. That and closets, closets, closets.
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