Today was quite windy & I am sure that dried things out even more - the grass in the back fields is ‘crunchy’. It was quite overcast beginning about midmorning, so at least we weren’t broiling under the sun.
I almost gave up on those old metal shelves about 3 times. They were bent & warped and so was the wood I was trying to use to reinforce it. It became obvious it wasn’t going to stand in a way that was stable without some major carpentry & if that was the case, I might as well build something from scratch.
Then the light bulb went off - let the darn thing sit on the top shelf instead of the legs - just turn it upside-down. The shelves have holes, so water will drain out. I am using it to hold boards, T posts, metal fence posts & other items I use to stake up plants, so the 4 legs in the air still make a nice rack-like storage space. It works & now everything is all neat & organized instead of leaning up against the compost bin.
This evening, I listened to a 3 hour podcast while cleaning up the mess I made in the garage. I had been scrounging for bolts, hex nuts, washers & screws on the fire pit log holder & the shelf salvage which meant most of the time was sorting all the boxes that I had pulled out, then getting them in some small plastic drawers I found - there were 2 sets of drawers, one still in the original plastic wrap. The scrap wood was cleaned up for a trip to the dump. I can now get the mower out again. Tomorrow is the herb garden expansion, if I have gotten my energy back after today - I am pretty tuckered out.