Memorial Day, Sunday/Monday

After church Sunday, resting a bit and playing with Sam before his nap, Aimee helped me get the cement footings for the old deck moved. We got the footings stacked up in a big pyramid which was kinda fun. Sam got up from his nap before I got the holes filled in and ended up tripping in one that was on the edge by the grass. Luckily he didn't hurt himself and just got back up without much trouble or complaint. So while I was filling up the holes, Aimee and him blew some bubbles; he is getting pretty good at the blowing part.




Later that night, after Sam went to bed, we went out to the garage and started cleaning up a little and getting rid of old boxes and rearranging stuff to make room for constructing and putting up some more wall cabinets. We put together two cabinets and got the wall bracket on the wall for one of them. I couldn't find the molly bolts I had bought before, so I had to wait to get more at HD before getting the second bracket up since it was only crossing one stud. It got late so I had to make the HD run on Monday.

I got the two cabinets we put together Sunday up on Monday afternoon as well as one that I had already put together and was sitting on the freezer. I need to patch a hole in the sheetrock behind the right cabinet so I shouldn't have screwed it to the other ones just yet, but at least I remembered before putting in all the screws to the bracket and wall support.

In the process of hanging the first two, I did figure out that I could attach the two cabinets we built together and hang them at one time by using scraps to space the brackets the right distance to allow for the cabinet sides between them. It ended up being a lot easier to hand all the brackets level with each other with the spacers than hanging a cabinet and using the supplied spacer to position the next bracket, like I did to hang the first cabinets a while ago.

I still need to put polyurethane on the insides to protect against spills, put on doors and paint the outside. I have plans for the last two cabinets to go beside the one above my toolbox; I should be able to fit the last two between there and the furnace ducting, over the freezer.

Then I get to try to make my own cabinets with pressboard and dovetail joints for the shelves. Oh and making drawers for the lower shelves under my workbench. That and finally putting all my stuff in a seemingly organized fashion into the cabinets so I can actually find stuff I need. I am sure I will end up building some organizational things into these shelves to hold specific items, like slots for boxes of nails and screws, pegboard on the inside of the doors to hang tools, etc. I have a several ideas from magazines and a couple books i bought that will hopefully make the most of the limited space I have.