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Monday, July 07, 2025

Yesterday David and Kerry wrestled a cabinet onto the truck and we dragged/rolled it into the shed after removing a sheet of David's plywood. Today is National Clear Shed day for the new 48" cabinet.

I have cleared a 48" stretch of the North wall. This may be a bad idea if it receives insufficient natural light.

I swept the floor after moving everything from that stretch of wall. The rest of my shed looks even worse, but now I Have established groups. The two umbrellas and the golf clubs are "sports"; the hardwood floor packets can be shoved into the loft when next some visitor arrives to help me. …

I decided to move the outlet one panel to the left so that I can use it. Here it is waiting to be fastened to part of the wall frame.

The cabinet is in place, but still needs work.

There are six vertical lockers, and each locker has a small shelf on top. I would like to remove the locks fittings (where the G-clamps are holding open the doors), and remove the latch mechanism from the cabinet AND mount twelve small knobs to open the doors.

A shim under the front of the cabinet may allow gravity to keep each door closed.

Storage space atop the cabinet and under the loft. There remains space in the lift above the cabinet for the packets of hardwood flooring.

But for now I can fill the cabinet from collections around the shed.

Playing with the cabinet: I can fit two electrical tools in each locker; two drills, a rotary and a fret saw. Or two coffee cans of tools for the ¼" chuck drill.

Bonnie's credenza is, heh heh, 48" wide. I have not found space for it in the house, but it would sit neatly atop my cabinet as a storage space for parts.

Vacuum it down, and there we go.

I removed the plinth, saved the Brackets and the Screws. The credenza lifts easily for two people. I spent an hour or two working through piles of "jink" and quit at 5pm/

Tuesday, July 08, 2025

I moved a barrow of soil from the Iris Bed, found the bricks, collected the iris and a tiger lily. Sieved the barrow of soil, burnet the first aspen limbs, dried the duvet, grouped the "gardening" equipment. Planted the one pumpkin across the street with a white collar.

Thursday, July 10, 2025

After a night's sleep I realize that I have been saving that 5-foot carton for over a year for "something useful". Today I will cut it into two pieces – 1/3 and 2/3 the length/height (15" + 30"). That will make two cartons for different lenths of scrap lumber. A square cardboard carton will receive chunks of under a foot. Sounds good?

Christopher Greaves UsingWallSpaceEffectively.xlsx

Wall space	104
Plastic 1	24
Plastic 2	24
Wood 1	28
Wood 2	34
Blondie	32
Total		142
(Remove)		38
Remainder	104

I can fit the two plastic kit-shelves, one of the bedroom dressers, and the blonde-wood segment along the western wall before reaching the window. The 38: cabinet will srill fit (I think) before we get to the bench. If so Hooray!

Monday, July 28, 2025

I have chopped up the latest partly-dried crop of aspen limbs, so that I now have access to my tomato plants, which are in need of staking.

I say that the limbs are chopped into two-foot lengths, but this is not for an indoor stove but as a base for a long-smoulderibg fire to which I can add greenwood.

Parts of the previous crop are still evident on the raised bed. I had to cease burning while the province sits under a fire ban.

Rather than burn gasoline to truck the limbs to the tip, I birn them in the raised bed to harvest the trace elements from the ashes. In autumn I will rotary-hoe the bed to mix in the ashes.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

I staked the tomatoes; one stem broke off at ground level, because many vines have grown along the ground. The cost of my procrastination is one tomato plant. Strung up the bottles in the shed and extracted the stepladder. Burned off a saucepan and a baking tray.