I have *way* too many things that I am behind on here at home (I have things that I am behind on at work too, but I can mostly ignore those for the weekend) and I would like to finish some of them. Most of these things are sadly resistant to being finished.
I am nearly done with today's five loads of laundry (with a bit of help from K). This is good.
When I got home from lunch, Gretchen was out with Julie which meant that I had access to the entire garage. This meant that I could get out the big ladder, take it to the back corner of the garage, and put the access hatch to the attic that had blown out on a windy day back in place, which seemed a good idea given the presence of a raccoon in the attic.
Unfortunately, the path to that corner of the garage is rather akin to a minefield, the area underneath the access hatch was full of stuff, and the chances of succeeding in doing this were very low. So I didn't try.
There are, however, a great many things that need to be done before I can park my car in the garage again, which is something I would really like to do. Unfortunately, one of the items was something that Gretchen had informed me was all *my* problem.
See, a couple of years ago when we thought we were going to do the repairs on the fence ourselves (with help from Sam), I bought the necessary lumber and piled it along the disaster area side of the garage. Then we ended up hiring someone to do the fence repairs, which means all of the lumber was still in the garage and needs to be moved before it is possible to think about parking on that side of the garage. This is *my* problem.
I figured out how many of the pickets I could stash in the picket storage on Gretchen's side of the garage and shoved them in there. Then there was the problem of the 2x4s. There were a lot of those too. And there was a gap between two shelf units on Gretchen's side of the garage that was just about the size of a 2x4. I moved some empty boxes around to clear the space above the gap (because the 2x4s are long) and slid all of the 2x4s into the gap. I will want to stick something in front of the timbers so that an earthquake or something doesn't decide to drop them onto a parked car, but all of our good bungee cords departed when the fence was repaired...
I then realized that the remaining pickets could be stored behind the hanging bracket for snow shovels and rakes. I had to remove one snow shovel and the snowblower to make this work, but it worked and I was able to shove everything back into position.
This leaves the two 4x4 posts that need to be stored somewhere. In fact, I know where they need to be stored, but it is at the back corner of the garage on the opposite side of the minefield, so that will have to wait. But the garage is a little bit closer to clean (very little, Ensign) which I am going to take as progress.
In other news, the raccoon has not yet taken the bait in the trap -- or perhaps the raccoon is smarter than the guy who set the trap and has acquired the bait without being trapped.
I have a ton of things that I need to do on the computer tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.
