Day 1810

 I got up at 8, did the pet stuff and had breakfast.  Then it was out to the playhouse.

I put the threshold down on the floor and measured how high the door would be.  It will require me to cut some off the top of the opening.  It will also require me to do a bevel cut on the end of the top 2x4.  By the time I done the measuring Ellen was ready to paint.  So I cleaned everything off and took the 2x4 to the garage.

I made the bevel cut.  This time it was easy and perfect.  I guess practice makes perfect.  Then I re-positioned the mounting points for the handle and latch.  I put the outside sheet on the door.  That's when I realized I shouldn't have moved the mounting points.  So I put them back where they were.  

I screwed the outside sheet to the door.  I'd made a rookie mistake.  When I cut the sheet I'd assumed the sheet was square.  It wasn't.  That meant that it didn't fit the square frame.  It was offset on the bottom.  I got some of the pieces I'd cut off the sheet and used then to fill in the "short" side.  I started to use the Dremel to cut the excess off, but it overheated halfway through.  I took that as a sign to eat lunch.

After lunch I used the Dremel to cut off the patch excess.  Then I used the jigsaw to cut off the excess on the other side.  That went a lot faster.

The refrigerator delivery came while I was working.  It turns out the new one has a water dispenser and an ice machine.  The delivery guys asked if they should hook it up.  In a fit of abject stupidity Ellen said no.  I'm not going to hook it up.  She can look at the dispenser every time she opens the door and reflect on her stupidity.

I wanted to do more work on the playhouse, but I couldn't because the entrance was all wet paint.  Ellen did a good job, it looks nice.  So I decided to unbox the new DirecTV antenna.

The antenna came in a heavy big box filled with small boxes.  I unpacked everything.  There were no instructions, so I was glad I had the old one to use as a pattern.  I was also glad that about half the weight was the mount, which we don't need in the trailer.  I left it broken down into three easy to assemble pieces and put them in the trailer.  Finally I removed the old one from the trailer and put it behind the well house.

I spent the rest of the afternoon reading on the deck.  I got through a lot of the magazines that had piled up.  Ellen fixed steak for dinner.  It was good.  After dinner was TV.  No Lego tonight, I didn't have time for both.