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After 2 full days of work, the shop is progressing steadily (yay)! Bought pegboard yesterday. After watching videos last night, I will be making a trip shortly for ‘furring strips’ so I can mount it on the wall. I put up 2 shelves yesterday to hold some small drawers I use for organizing deck/construction type screws & I am very pleased with that arrangement.

I got a lot of neat ideas for customizing hangers instead of using regular pegboard hooks. Once I get the pegboard up, I will be making hangers for hammers & wrenches in particular. I have all the screw drivers in drawers, but I will work out something so I can hang favorites for quick grabbing. This is the part I find “exciting” - seeing what I can come up with to make my handywoman job easier. :-)

The little country market down the road is getting in flowers & herbs ... may have to go take a look! 💐

Pictures when you’re organized, Please!

I am DYING for a trip to my local Garden Centers. Not much happening up here yet, though I see Jada’s is starting to advertise on TV. Such a cool spot! I’m glad she’s making a go of it.

https://www.jadasgarden.com/

Mom and I will make the rounds this season, for sure. She’s always saying, ‘But I don’t NEED anything...’ and comes home with as much as I do, LOL! She says I’m a BAD INFLUENCE.

Mice chewed off three of my tomato plants, but they may come back because they all have a good root system - I JUST re-potted them! Jerks.

Anyhow, last night I figured out a better way to protect them and there was no chewing overnight. I understand being hungry, but to just chew something off and not eat it? Maddening! Tomato leaves do NOT taste good - to anyone except a Tomato Hornworm - but we’ll worry about them, later.

I have a flat of Marigold and a flat of Dahlia from seed - but I think the mice got to them, too - still no germination and it’s been two weeks, so I’m going to re-seed what I can and see if I can make a success of it. Grrrr! You’ve got the whole EARTH to roam and you have to be in my greenhouse? Again, JERKS!

Peanut Butter Traps are also being set. This. Is. War!

Hello fellow organizer of tools. Found one side of the shed floor last night and am going to find the other side today. Sheds, shops, garages, that one kitchen drawer, all have the same issue of becoming a catchall.

Got sick of going back and forth from tunnel to shed to keep grabbing tools and hardware so I set up some VersaStack boxes like this, but in my case, no middle box but I had the tool bag from the same system snapped on top. Everything I could possibly need.

Worked good until I had to drag it back up the slight hill, then I decided it was too much. Thought I was going to rip the handle out going across the gravel. Gonna make up smaller kits today. One for general use and a couple special purpose, like a box with metal tunnel frame parts, a box with electric fence parts etc. That big box built as part of the cart was too tempting to fill with stuff.

Maybe this summer I'll get the DeWalt TSTAK cart that's compatible with the Versastack. Never did like the box/cart as a single unit. Gonna swap to mostly drawer units too so I don't have to do all that unstacking which is the downside of stackable. I don't mind taking the tool bag off but spreading out 3-4 boxes is a pain and takes up room.

Only thing I need is a single 4" deep drawer as I already have two of the double 2" drawer units.

Single 4" Drawer ------------- Double 2" drawer -------------- clear lid organizer.

I do have the clear lid organizer which I like, so from bottom to top it will be, one 4"drawer, four 2" drawers(two 2 drawer units), clear lid organizer and tool bag on top. Only unstacking I'd have to do is to take the tool bag off which is no big deal and would probably happen anyway to get to a spot the cart can't. I can get the 4" drawer unit pretty soon for $36 but the $122 cart can wait.

I'll be mismatched like this but oh well, Craftsman/Versastack doesn't make a 4" deep drawer unit, just the two 2" drawer units. Had I known at the time, I would have gone with DeWalt but Craftsman/Versastack is what Lowe's had and it was a heck of a price.

Between the stackable system and four metal boxes, I've almost got too many tool boxes. Got a couple old plastic stackable boxes on wheels too but they were cheap junk when I got them 30 years ago. It's about time for them to go. Might keep the top boxes and set one up for the trunk of the car and see if one will fit under the back seat of the truck.

Since I bought the newer stackables, I never have rearranged my tools and they've mostly been empty so that will be today's project after getting more stuff out of the shed and into the travel trailer (the next catchall).

Almost 2pm and probably not going to get much warmer so I guess I'll get to it. Can finish tomorrow if need be.