Attach side panel AB to front panel CF. (Note: You may need a friend for this step)

Throughout the blog silence we have been quietly working on the garden & the garage... Trying to plan our work around the weather. If you live in southern Mississippi you understand what a ridiculous endeavor that is.... Therefore - we have a little done on the garage and a little done on the garden -- and a lot more to do.


At least we're happy with the gray we picked for the garage walls -- at least it looks alright on the one wall we've painted so far.

How did we ever get so much done over the previous three years? We just don't seem to have it in us anymore. If the garage had been last spring's project we would have had the whole thing finished in under three weeks.... But this project has been dragging on since Christmas now. The only thing motivating us tonight is the fact that we've been driven certifiably insane by the mountain of boxes out there and have reached the breaking point.

By the way -- it's pretty hard to paint and install cabinets when all of your paint supplies and tools are packed in boxes somewhere in the garage. We really need to finish this so we can find our tools again... and we really need our tools so we can finish this. Bwahahaha! See? Insane.

Side note: About those cabinets... They look nice enough, yes. However, despite the Coleman name being used - they're actually Sauder cabinets. They're unbelievably heavy and awkward. The instructions are less clear than we'd like. But our big complaint so far is the adjustable legs on these things.... Made of plastic. Yes. Plastic. Little plastic legs to hold up this cabinetry that is almost too heavy for Dave and I to move while EMPTY. The same little plastic legs are expected to hold up when the shelves are full? Needless to say - we already snapped a dainty plastic leg off of one of the larger cabinets when moving it into place.... Therefore - we're foregoing the ease of installation promised on the box (with reference to those adjustable legs for leveling) and attaching all of our cabinets to the wall.

We're not going for a clean and shimmed kitchen cabinet installation here -- we just want to make sure nothing is going to collapse or fall over onto children or cars. (In other words: We're tired.)

We're installing the hutch component tonight. Pictures to follow.