One thing leads to another.....

7:44 am - Sunday - November 24th - TWW - 44° F, humidity 43%, wind 10 mph out of the south.....high, thin clouds today with a forecast high of 57° F.  On this date in 2016 TLE and I were enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner with family in Ontario CA at the home of our youngest child, Tim, and his soon to be wife, Laila....

Tim and Laila in the foreground

Before we could begin to put together the new cedar shed we bought, we needed, or I should say, wanted a foundation to keep it off the ground.  We hadn't given this part much thought, and didn't buy any concrete blocks for that purpose, so what to do?  Well, as we have said before, "the land provides".  The large bird cage sitting in the middle of the area where the Bluetti charging station is located, sits upon 5 large concrete blocks, which would be perfect.  All we had to do was jack up the bird cage, one side at a time, remove the large blocks, then replace them with smaller blocks, also provided by the land.

I do, however, get ahead of myself.  Before we could do any of that, we needed to move the current charging station toward the Newell about 6' to clear the area where the blocks would be placed, and leveled, so that was our first task of the day. Once we had the wire cage in which the Bluetti batteries reside repositioned, I decided to tighten up the wood frame, which I've been meaning to do since we first decided to use it.  Once done with that I decided to continue on to the deck for the house, which also needed to be tightened (it's held together mostly with long wood screws).  Suddenly it was almost noon time and we hadn't begun to set the concrete blocks, and level them.  It's funny how easily I can be diverted from the main task of the day, but the deck was in serious need of attention.  Each time you grabbed one of the handrails to walk up the stairs, they would wobble in your hand, which does not instill a lot of confidence....lol....now they are solid!

We took a break from our labors a little after 12 pm, then began the aforementioned task of jacking up the bird cage to retrieve the large concrete blocks, replacing them with smaller red clay bricks.....

....once the concrete blocks were liberated, we placed them in the area where the new shed will sit, and do its job of protecting the Bluetti battery bank from the wintery elements.  Once we had the blocks set, and leveled, we opened up the large box containing the the shed to find the instructions so I could spend some time reading them before beginning the assembly on Sunday.....

.....while TLE went back inside I headed out to the garage to begin installing the new windshield Charles and Phyllis purchased for the Yamaha Rhino.  It seemed pretty straight forward, but it was not.  It took me over an hour to install the rubber gasket on the bottom of the lower half of the windshield, which must be done before it can be installed.  In the end I was victorious, and with Charles' help (oh, by the way, we were expecting them) we installed the lower portion of the bi-fold windshield, and then called it a day.  The top part looks pretty easy to install, but we shall see....lol....

The top piece of the bi-fold winshield

.....while I was working on installing the windshield, TLE was inside the Newell making dinner for us, Charles and Phyllis.  It was a spinach/tortellini soup, which was delicious.  We sat at the dining table in the house eating, talking and imbibing a little vino.  And thus ended another day at TWW.  We got a lot done, and can now begin the assembly of the new cedar shed!

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