Another beautiful day. Cool, then warm, and sunny and clear. Like yesterday. It did get to 80F and the sun was warmer, of course, but still a very nice day. I would like the same today. Unfortunately, this is like the 5th week without rain, so we are having a drought. Some of my potted saplings dried up before I noticed.
Yesterday’s work output was a mixed bag again. Small jobs, and one big one got done, so that was good. I cleaned more of the outdoor shelves that used to have food and cleaning supplies on them. That has been neglected for far too long. The bottom shelf is about half eaten through with rust too. That was the shelf with 6 gallons of bleach bottles sitting on it. Even without real leaks, the chlorine plays holy heck with steel. I’m betting a little got by the cap seal when the contents expanded and contracted with changes in temperature. That and the wet goo from the failed cans of fruit combined to eat the shelf. I’ll just swap the shelf for another one, since I have them. I’m glad I didn’t put the bleach on the top shelf.
The failed fruit cans are why I keep the cans in plastic bins in my main storage area. If a can fails, it doesn’t contaminate everything else on the shelves, only what’s in the bin. It also keeps dust, dirt, and rat poop off the cans. This is something to think about if you are using my milk crate system to organize cans. I think they better have a plastic layer between crates to protect the cans below.
After cleaning the shelves, I started clearing a path into the garage, so I could swap out the 7cuft chest freezer with the fridge I bought a couple of months ago now… It’s been running in the driveway like some hillbillies live here. Since my jobs are fractal, with every job involving several other jobs first, it took a while. Eventually though, I got the way clear for the chest freezer to come out and the fridge to go in. Then it was dinner time…
Today I’ll see about emptying the chest freezer into the other freezers and the top of the fridge. If I could, I’d find a place for the chest freezer too. Although it IS nice to have the freezer as a backup. If someone gave me a deer or a pig, I wouldn’t have room for it without using the backup, or if the backup was full.
After getting that sorted, I’ll do some more cleaning and organizing. Maybe a bit of repair on the auction item. It’s got a noisy fan that is either the processor fan, or the PSU. I think it’s the PSU, which is easy enough to fix as I have a stack of PSUs…maybe. Fingers crossed.
Then I have to get some stuff listed for sale. It’s been too long since I had money coming in, and there have been a lot of outflows… and I’ve got some big ticket items waiting to sell.
And now that I have most of a path into the garage, I’d like to get our normal Halloween decor out. I haven’t decided on the big display yet, but the smaller stuff can get set up. And maybe that will be enough this year. Dunno. We’ll see.
There might even be some stacking involved.
There should be.
nick