The Shelves Take Shape

[kevin_standlee]

Lisa could not sleep, and working at night is much more pleasant than in the heat of the day, so she spent part of Saturday night sawing particleboard shelves into the right size and assembling some of the metal shelving that we bought at Lowe's earlier in the week.


By Sunday morning, this was where things stood. Lisa secures the shelves to the steel frame of the garage with bolts, so they won't fall over. Particleboard shelves go in every slot except the top one (which uses open metal grid), with U-brackets (not visible here) underneath to spread the load and prevent the boards from buckling in mid-shelf.

In the foreground is a pile of more boxes and other miscellany stacked on a pallet. This stuff will eventually end up on the shelves so that we can reclaim the center of the garage as a place for parking vehicles.

I'm very pleased with the progress on these shelves. Organization is happening.

Comments

[lindadee.livejournal.com]

Is that a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica I see on the bottom shelf. My parents' set (from the early 1960s) resides in New York with my brother.

And you haven't mentioned Lisa's hearing in a while. Is the new appliance working? (I hope so.)

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

No, it's a vast collection of National Geographic in nice binders, now rather dusty.

Treatment on the tinnitus is delayed because they can't cast the appliance properly until they get the crown for that tooth on which the root canal was done is fitted. The first two attempts to crown the tooth failed. The third try is this week. Lisa ended up breaking the first appliance because of the malformation attributable to the temporary crown shifting around. If this third attempt to fit a permanent crown works, she'll go see the specialist and get the appliances recast.