Manually speaking.....

 7:06 am - Tuesday - November 26th - TWW - 45° F, humidity 60%, wind 10 mph out of the south......cloudy today with a forecast high of 62° F.  On this date in 2017 I was taking a mountain bike ride near Desert View (Grand Canyon) on my Intense 5.5 mountain bike....

.....the view this morning....

TLE and I were on the shed building job between 8:30 and 9 am Monday.  We really wanted to make a big dent in getting it built, and hoped we might be half way done by the end of the day.  This is the biggest construction project I've ever undertaken.  It comes with a large 56 page instruction booklet (8½" x 11"), and believe me when I say this, we could not have put it together without that well written instruction manual....

....with age comes wisdom, most of the time, and in my case, with age comes the acknowledgement that one must read the instructions to complete most any project successfully.  With TLE reading each step of construction process to me we began to put the shed together.  There was a lot of prep work on many of the preassembled panels, but at last we were able to raise the first wall.....

....once we got the first wall screwed into place, the process began to accelerate.....

....and soon the shed began to take shape.......

....we took a short break around noon time, but by 2:30 pm we had the shed assembled, with the exception of hanging the three doors.....

Doors inside the shed awaiting installation on Tuesday

This shed has a side compartment, which appealed to us....TLE can store a lot of her gardening supplies in there

The other thing we liked about this shed is that is has a floor, and a metal roof

....frankly, I have to admit, the instruction manual was very detailed, and well written.  Between the written explanations, and well done diagrams (pictures) we made very few mistakes that were not easily correctible.  If we got confused about the next step it was just a matter of rereading the instructions, and examining the diagrams to clarify the next step.  We managed to get well past half done, and really only have the three doors (two front, and one side) to hang on Tuesday, and it is ready for occupancy.

In all it took us 6 hours Monday (excluding the floor assembly, which we did Sunday) to get the shed 90% complete.  We're looking forward to finishing the job on Tuesday, and then moving in our Bluetti solar charging station.  I do not remember sharing the cost of this 6' x 3' shed, but it was $999 at Home Depot.  The best deal we had found, and we'd been looking for almost a year.  Comparable sheds at other retailers run 2-3 times this cost.

Oh, by the way, Matt (the handyman) returned with his assistant, Dustin, Monday morning to finish running the new water line from the storage tanks to the house, and by 1 pm they had restored water service, and pressure to the house for the first time in a few months!  Now those aforementioned dominos will begin to tumble quickly!

It was too breezy for a sunset fire, and frankly, there was not much of one until almost  6 pm when I snapped these pictures...

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