My garage: An Update.

The winner last night was: The Lost Collector. It's been awhile for AJ to pull in a prize.

I've been home now for 10 weeks. I have worked my butt off most of the time. I slacked off for a couple of weeks twice now. But I am still making tremendous progress. You may remember that I had ordered 12 bookshelves/cases and that 8 of them were on backorder. Well, those 8 came in and I have put 6 of those together. Inside my garage is basically the same as it has been for a month now. I am still waiting on my shed to come which could still be 3 weeks or so. 

The shed will be placed in my backyard. This is what it looked like from the street before I cut down the trees.

The pile of roots you see is where I plan on placing my shed. The house you see (behind the fence) is where my brother is staying for the next two years. The fence belongs to my neighbor who is renting the house to my brother.

 

This is some random views after the trees were down taken from my patio.

The street view with the trees gone and the area scraped, raked and bush hogged. The grass is already springing back up from the raking, and I already had to mow the rest of the yard (and my brother's). Nearly 90 today (87). Spring is in the air and I love it. 

The left side looking in.

The left center.

This group is what the inside of the garage looked like after I placed the first 4 bookcases inside. The view above is the right side view. If you look all the way in the back up top you will see a section of duct work with a circular "thing" in the center. That is a diffuser which is supposed to help remove humidity and cool/heat at the same time. I am not sure it works that well, but will have to wait until the summer to see how it goes.

This is a view after I placed a desk inside the garage which is where I have been working for the last month. You can also see that most of the moving boxes and tubs have been unpacked. Remaining are about 6 tubs and of course all of the baseball cards storage boxes which those will always remain in the boxes. However, I have 5 bakery racks about 6' high that house the majority of them today.

Here are the original two racks that I got from my Uncle Fred. I ordered 3 more and have already filled them up and still have 5K count boxes to store. I do have a a chrome storage shelf for those, I just haven't been able to empty what is on it currently as that task requires my shed.

Changing colors (text) here as is appropriate for what I am about to say. A wrinkle has been thrown into the mix. Turns out some of my reasons for not building an addition to my house was correct. Besides costing 350% more than quoted just 3 years ago (which is a really big deal and the #1 reason for not adding on). The 2nd reason was I know my daughter, and figured she would take off by the time it was done. Long story short: she is supposed to move here stuff out of the house and into storage this weekend (although I am doubting). She has already been staying at her mom's place for the past two weeks. It wasn't that I enforced any rules that she couldn't live with. My rules are simple: leave my stuff alone. That's it. No, the problem was that she wanted me to follow here rules, yeah that wasn't going to happen EVER. My house, no rules apply to me period. I was patient with her, but figured all along that she would last about 3 months, eh she made 60 days. No need to get into any particulars, but looks like my original plans for my house are going to take effect. IE: cards inside the house.... all of them. Garage: will once again be headed to a man cave with the pool table, dart board, poker table, and a BAR! Breweriana and other beverage memorabilia all around as well as my vintage board games (highlighted with the baseball of course). 

On a personal note, I will miss my daughter and my grandson (already do), but she says they will come by on Thursdays and Sundays after church. That will be nice but I remember how 24 yo think, so if that does happen it won't last for long most certainly if something else comes up, lol. 

So that is one heck of an update!