Saturday morning I was up and working early. By 6am I was loading the trailer with debris from the years of renovation waste that piled up in the outbuilding. This is the second load and the pile is not touching the ceiling. To put this pile in perspective, think of your average bedroom. Then think of it full of scrap vinyl siding, storm window frames, shutters, carpet, linoleum, empty paint cans, old insulation, etc. I’m sure you get the picture. It was just easier to toss it in the corner of the building and take care of it later. Now is later! Back to the work at hand, I was loaded up and tied down by 7 and off to the landfill.
The landfill is somewhat intimidating to me as far as pulling in with a trailer and backing it up to the drop off cliff. If I’m lucky there will only be a few people there to witness my lack of skills. Luckily there is only one car there, so I am able to circle around and line myself up pretty straight. Then after approximately 4 left turn twitches and 4 right alternating twitches, I am at the cliff. The cliff is just that, a big pit created by a massive bull dozer with steel hammer heads welded all over each wheel. Untied and unloaded in about 15 minutes is pretty good.
After the dump I stopped by Lowes for some OSB plywood that is on sale for $4.97 a sheet. I pick up a dozen since this stuff has gone for as much as $15 a sheet. I also pick up some bird seed and a galvanized trash can to store it in. Since I have increased the bird feeding I decided that a more secure storage container was needed. The squirrel is getting smarter and I have seen some raccoons hanging around at night. The squirrel has this trick he does at the sunflower seed feeder. He scurries down the thin wire the feeder is attached to. He hangs from his hind legs and picks at the wire screen to get seeds to stuff in his jaws. He then hangs straight down (upside-down) and eats what’s in his jaws discarding the hulls. That is the only feeder he messes with so I just let it go. The birds get plenty and also pick at him to fall off.
Gin worked on staining the 2nd drawing file cabinet for the engineers. I went to work on assembling the next two. Patrick stopped by for lunch and to pick up the lawn mower. After lunch we went out to the local greenhouse to pick up some Creeping Flox for the front hill. We want to eliminate having to weed-eat or mow the steep side of the lawn next to the road. After the garden trip I went back to assembling cabinets and Gin applied the 1 st coat of poly to the stained cabinet.
Sunday we were hit the Whole Foods Market in Greenville for some specialty items and also a little Salmon dip and Italian bread for lunch. On the way home we picked up the remainder of groceries at Wal-Mart along with some more Creeping Flox from the garden center. I worked in the shop the rest of the afternoon. Gin applied the last coat of poly to the cabinet. She also worked on some transplanting some of the wild plants around the yard. For dinner Gin made turkey sausage patties with provolone cheese, mixed peppers and onions.
I worked on the 3 rd cabinet a little more after dinner. By nightfall I was closing up the shop and getting the finished cabinet loaded in the truck for a Monday morning delivery.
The picture is a lizzard that was hanging out at the ramp to the shop.
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