(shelving)
The law of averages, has not, in fact, finally caught up with me (…yet). My extended silence is simply down to the hectic demands of combining DIY and employment.
Last January it was the shower base/thing/pedestal “remodelling”. This year it was the restructuring of the “temporary” shelving I threw together when we moved in (3 years ?!).
Boards that were bitten to shape and wedged in situ, as an expedient to provide some immediate storage for (unopened) boxes, had finally risen to the top of my mental “better do something about that” list. I had three days in hand.
Of course that first involves emptying the cupboard onto the floor, the table, the chairs, the rest of the floor – how much stuff is in here?, rapidly devolving into - What’s in this box?…Oh I haven’t seen this in… I wondered where that went….
Then I have an unusable room, with nowhere to put the “stuff” and no space to do the actual task, assuming I don’t start reading any of the bits of paper, or looking in the smaller boxes. (Wow! Guess what I found….). It would not be the first time I have just repacked everything and trusted to my Heath Robinson construction for “a bit longer”, however, I’m trying to actually finish the things I start these days.
There was a lot of sweeping, a lot of moving things again, some sawing, drilling, and measuring – often better done as- measuring, drilling, and sawing, and more sweeping. A bit too much opening boxes (Awe! Come see this), which meant that either the room stayed out of action while I returned to work, or… the entire task gets completed in one herculean last day, and everything packed away anew.
I am “still” sore in some places, but the good news is that the woodstain will wear off my hands eventually, and the boxes are safely shelved for the rest of time (?).
Net week on IaDL – “Fair faw yer honest soncie face…”
Dalmallyfest the Asylum 