Thursday 21st November 2013 – FIRST TASK THIS MORNING …

… was to shovel a pile of snow off the solar panels. I was right about it being more persistent last night.

Second task was to move Caliburn. As you know, here I’m down the bottom of a slight hollow at the end of a dirt track and traction is not what it might be. If we have much more of this snow then I won’t be able to go anywhere, and I do have places to go and people to see.

That having been done, I can concentrate on breakfast, even if it was a mere 12.5°C up here in my garret. It was much colder outside, of course, and so I didn’t really fancy the idea too much, but the work doesn’t get done by itself.

So I attacked the lean-to again and cut up another pile of wood. Then, with dexterious use of a brush and shovel I cleaned quite a large extra of space. I then set to to tidy up all of the new wood – shelving, IKEA furniture and the like, and that left quite a nice little hole for the shelving unit. But herein lies a problem, to wit the shelves that I was planning on using were 4cms too high.

Not to be too put off by all of this, I emptied the little shelf unit in the wash room and put that in the lean-to and started to fill that up. I want to put all of the gardening stuff in there and so I went on my travels around the various parts of the barn, and I find that I have filled the shelf unit and there’s nothing like all of it in there.

Clearly this is going to call for some more reorganisation. What I shall probably end up doing is what I should have done first rather than last, and that is to build a custon set of shelving like I have done just about everywhere else that I’ve been working.

It really is a crazy notion to do it half-and-half like this. I can see me making another trip to the sawmill next week, assuming that the snow is going to stop.

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