6:19 am - Wednesday - November 27th - TWW - 50° F, humidity 71° F, wind 8 mph out of the west by southwest......partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 53° F. On this date in 2013 TLE were throwing back a beer, or two at Hero's Restaurant in Riverside, CA.....
.....that mug must have held over 30 oz. of beer....lol! Is that even legal?
Our main goal Tuesday was to hang the 3 shed doors left over from Monday. You never know how a task may go when Hockwalds are involved, but on this occasion it went pretty smoothly. Within an hour we had the doors hung, and all of the attendant hardware installed (handles, latches, etc.).....
The side door
The two front doors
......and with that we were finished with the construction of our new cedar shed. She really is a beauty, and looks even better in person than on the Home Depot website!
While I was putting away the tools, TLE took some cardboard, and other paper products over to our 'burn barrel' to dispose of them.....
....once we were finished we headed into Seligman around 10:40 am to buy a few things at the hardware store, and at Family Dollar. Then it was over to the Chevron station to top off the Expedition tank, and fill four 5 gallon gas cans. We were back in 90 minutes, at which time I began to move the Bluetti solar generator station into the shed......
....it took me about an hour to drill a hole in the floor of the new shed for the 50 amp power cord to enter, and move the station. Using that wood pallet for the base of the shed proved to be genius. I only had to drill one hole in the floor of the shed just big enough for the 50 amp power cord from the Newell to fit. The big hole I drilled to get the male end of the cord through was in the wood pallet for the main plug to fit through, then I drilled the smaller hole for the cord, then removed that floor board, installed the cord, then reinstalled the floorboard around it. The other cords (solar and charger) fit between the floor boards, so no holes had to be cut in the shed floor for them....just in the wood pallet (three holes in all) beneath the shed floor to feed those cords into the shed. The Bluetti solar charging station only takes up a small corner of the shed, so there is room for a lot more stuff in there.....
I only had to drill one hole in the shed floor itself...just big enough for the diameter of the cord
The final setup
......once that was done, TLE and I turned our collective attention to topping off our fresh water tank, the refilling the IBC water tote, which we accomplished in about 45 minutes.
If that had been the end of my day it would have been nice, but I still had to keep a promise I made to Matt (handyman) as he was leaving Monday.....he asked me to reinstall the insulation around some of the pipes in the water pump room. That took me another hour, and by time I finished that, then buttoned up the pump room, and put away the tools I had used it was after 4 pm......I was one tired puppy.
We'll be heading out for SoCal to have Thanksgiving with our kids in a couple of hours (today, Wednesday), so it is time to wrap up this latest post, and put the final things into my suitcase, before jumping into the Beetle for our 6 hour drive.
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