It didn't actually take three months to do this....

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But we did finish the garage.

If you can really call it finished ever. There are plenty of somedays out there -- just as there are around the house. Someday we would like to do something snazzy with the garage floor. Someday we'd like to devise a better storage system for the seven (!) bikes out there. But for now we are done with an honestly massive overhaul of our car-storage area.... The proof that we've accomplished something amazing: We can now regularly store at least one car in our two-car garage.

Sooo.. If it didn't actually take three months to finish up - how long did it take? One more day. We were literally finished the night after my previous post and supremely happy with our results. We actually spent a good chunk of the next evening sitting in the garage in lawn chairs like complete lunatics just so we could enjoy the fruits of our labor.

Updating the blog is where we ran into problems.

Immediately following our garage-redo triumph I became sick again. Yes, again. I recall a couple of weeks of pain (and pain killers) and frantic trips to doctors offices and ultrasound technicians and labs - but the exact order and nature of all of that is lost to me now. I eventually ended up having a very hastily scheduled surgery to remove a chronically inflamed gall bladder and a wayward lymph node. The last few months have been recovery... not from the surgery as much as from the drama (not trauma) of the whole thing.

And now.. we're back.

Tiny, teeny, pathetic projects are on the horizon! A post with our updated to-do list is to follow.

In the meantime, hello DWSHKON readers! Nice to be back.

The Hutch

Not a very clever title, I know - but it's late and we just spent a couple hours putting boxed cabinets together.


It's been years since I've been prompt about posting follow-up pictures, but Dave insisted. Besides, it gives me yet another opportunity to post a gratuitous photo of my car.

Putting the hutch component together was a snap. Mounting it to the base cabinets as instructed was impossible. Somehow we were to line up the 3/4 inch wide boards (and the pre-drilled holes at the end of the boards) with pre-drilled holes in the base cabinet tops which are hidden beneath the rubber mat work surface of the base cabinets. We actually tried it a few times before we gave up and used the provided L-bracket to attach the top to the nearest stud -- and a couple of our own L-brackets to secure the hutch to the base cabinets.

Tomorrow we plan to mount the remaining base cabinets (the ones with the drawers on the left side in the above picture). Then we'll purchase two wall cabinets and (hopefully) mount those above the drawers. Considering our experience with the rest of the components in this line -- coupled with online reviews I've read regarding the mounting system provided with the wall cabinets -- I think we'll be doing a lot of improvising before we'll be ready to unpack boxes and actually put stuff in our new fancy cabinets.

We'll let you know how that turns out.