Sunday, December 18, 2016

More closet work

It's the job that never ends. Not a bad thing really. The smaller hallway closet in my customer's house needed some shelving. But it had to serve both as a coat closet and a place to park large kitchen counter-top appliances. Nothing to it.
So I picked up some birch ply, some #2 pine and fired up the wood stove in the garage.
It would barely keep the place above freezing while it was in the single digits outside and blowing 40mph
A couple of hours later, once I got some of the cold knocked out of the garage I started to put together a kit as it would need to come apart in order to get it in the closet.
About 4 hours of fiddling got me this far.
  I was out of the shelving pegs so I ran to Lowes to pick up some more and bought a small bag with 20 count of them. When I got home and opened it I found this Chinese coin in among the shelving pegs. I figure some poor slave worker in China is trying to send me a message.
On Friday afternoon before the storm I took it all apart and brought it over to the house. With some degree of fuss I was able to assemble it inside the closet. The whole thing sits on the top edge of the baseboards and there are screws that go in from the underside to fix the bottom to the sides of the shelving unit. I used the shelves to elevate the whole box temporarily while I got those screws in from underneath along with some liberal use of expletives.
The shelves on the left are on moveable pegs can be adjusted for height as needed.
Murphie's food bucket even has a place to live.
Then Saturday morning we woke to winter.
Doves were huddling on the patio fence.
There were a few fools driving around.
Yuck
Welfare bums were helping themselves to the spoils.
I hear tell those doves make for good eating.
Pearl had the right idea.

10 comments:

  1. Lindo trabajo, pese a que te duele todo. Bet you'll have a 'white Xmas'... Poor birds, let them inside -and Pearl will be happy chasing them.

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    1. No, if the birds are dumb enough to not fly south for the winter, I will feed them but that's about it. The pigeons are looking quite tempting. I bet they are tasty enough.

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  2. The shelves look nice, but I won't say the same for the snow! ;-)

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    1. Yea, I can't say I care for the snow either, it just makes work harder for me. Not something my bad arm can handle too well these days.

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  3. Nice work.

    Today's rain turned our snow in a soggy mess. It will be fun cleaning up in the morning when everything's frozen solid.

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    1. Yes it rained here Sat night too. Fortunately we cleared out the snow Saturday after 3 pm before the rain came. I can't risk leaving it on my roof with 2x6 rafters spanning 18 feet and only two feet on center. So we got right on it just as the snow stopped. Took a couple hours but I am sure glad we did.

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  4. That coin is the death token of the Triple Bad Ass Three Dragon Fong Goo Triad Tong!

    You are doomed! :-0

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  5. Oh Crap! Not the Triple Bad Ass Three Dragon Fong Go Triad.... I am done for then... I am loading the Mini 14 right now .....LOL

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  6. Hi Mike, sorry for taking so long to stop by. Great job on the closet. You know how I feel about Winter, love it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and family.

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    1. Hi there John, hope all is well up your ways as well and you had a peaceful Christmas. Not much going on here other that getting ready for spinal surgery in a couple days. More on that one later.

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