Day 774

Today made up for some of the lazy days I've had lately.  We woke up before 8 and were out of bed a little after 8.  We did the pet stuff and had breakfast.  I checked for more deals online, but I didn't really look hard.  I'm actually tired of buying things.  By 9:00 I was out working on the backstop.

I put a 2x4 brace across the uprights.  That made the thing a lot sturdier.  Then I ran 5 wires on each side of the uprights to hold the mats in.  After that I got Ellen out to help put the mats in the frame.  That was a time consuming and onerous job.  Those mats are heavy, floppy, and hard to handle.  We eventually got four of them in the frame.  Then Ellen went inside while I finished the wires to hold them in.

I called Ellen back outside to help lift the frame up to vertical.  That's when we both discovered that with the mats in it it was really heavy.  Our first attempt failed.  The second attempt worked, but it was a near thing.  I sent Ellen back inside and I cut the remaining two mats in half to stack on top of the first four.  By this time it was after noon and 80 degrees.  I was hot and tired and decided to call a halt for today.

After lunch we went to Home Depot to get on of the tool chests they had on sale.  I also got a couple of 2x6's that I'll use to reinforces the frame where the two stacks of mats join.

When we got back home Ellen helped unload the chest.  Then I spent the rest of the afternoon, until 5, rearranging the garage.  I put the new chest where the old one was.  I had to raise the hardware holder above it to make it fit.  Then I moved the hoist into the corner by the heater.  I also moved all of the train stuff from the old cabinet to the tool chest.

Then I moved the ammo cabinet so that I could fit the old tool chest next to the big one.  That involved unloading half the cabinet.  I also had to relocate a couple of things that were hung on the wall.  Finally I folded up the Workmate.  I'm going to use the new one I bought yesterday because it's easier to move around.  I still have to take a couple of things to the back shed, but it was 5 and I was very tired.

Even though I was tired I took the dog to the mailbox.  On the way I talked to Dola and her husband for quite awhile.  I didn't do exercises when I got back.  I've done enough for today.

Dinner is the last food I'm going to have for 36 hours.  I'm not looking forward to the starving and shitting.

The evening was surfing and a little TV.