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| 2008-11-22 |
Saturday, we did some planning and measuring and then off to Home Depot to get supplies. Sadly, they did not have a lot of the shelving supplies we needed in stock, and the person helping us said the ordering system is automated and so things don't get re-ordered until they are all gone - seems strange to me that you'd not re-order when you were down to just a few. We took everything home, made sure it would work, and then headed back out to see if any other places sold the same brand of shelving (unfortunately neither Menards, Lowe's, or Fleet Farm did - and the brands they had, even they wouldn't have had all we needed). We did pick up a nice bathroom mirror at Lowe's. After stopping for lunch at Famous Dave's which Erin was craving, we went back to Home Depot and decided getting all the same color of the shelf backing wasn't necessary, as it is hardly visible, and it's the utility room so who cares. So with that, we had enough to get at least one full wall done.
Got home around 5, first thing we did was put up the mirror - this mirror project has been hanging over my head for like 2 years - I originally bought a mirror, but bought kind of crappy clips to hang it up with, and never got it done, and then on top of that, broke one corner of the mirror moving it around. So getting this done was a big relief to me - it took all of 15 minutes. We then put up a decorative plate holder that is also functional as we have a set of plates that were given to us that we haven't had a good place to put (they've been sitting on the counter). Oddly, someone also recently gave us a wine rack they no longer needed, and it happened to match perfectly with this plate holder - which I had gotten like 4 years ago. This project took a little more doing, including putting in 6 wall clamps to hold up the rack with the dishes. But when it was done, it looked great!
At that point, I wanted to watch the "big" game of the day, Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma (which turned out to be a huge blowout), so Erin started in on a project he had been planning for awhile, to build greenhouse shelves to grow seedlings in (complete with grow lights). He spent a good 3 hours that evening before calling it a night.
Sunday morning, we tried out the new french press (it makes nice strong coffee, which I love, not sure if Erin did or not), and hung out with the kitties and had some breakfast. After getting showers and dressed and ready for the day, it was back to Home Depot to get the actual shelving (Saturday we just got the wall mounts and brackets). Erin also picked up some lag bolts for the greenhouse shelves. We got home, ate some lunch and watched an interesting show on Discovery Health "I'm My Own Twin" which talked about people who are born with two complete sets of DNA - kind of interesting (and demonstrates how using DNA for legal reasons is not completely fool-proof). Erin went back to work on the greenhouse shelves, and after a bit I started working on sorting through some of the boxes in the utility room. Erin got to a stopping point on the greenhouse shelves and we pulled all the boxes out of the corner and pulled out the table in the corner so we could put up the wall shelves. After a couple hours of moving, sorting, and vacuuming, we finally had all the shelves up, boxes on the shelves, some stuff thrown out (or recycled), and the room was clean! All the while the cats were down there "helping" (really just being in the way and nearly being stepped on but it was cute and hard to get mad at :)
By then it was 5:00 and we were ready to be done for the day. Apparently so were the kitties (see the picture below). Three days to get ready for the big dinner.
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