Day 1, Saturday. It did not yet feel like I was on vacation. It mostly felt like a weekend, like it always does. That said, Friday was a total joke for me at work. I only did some work to pass the time, otherwise I giddily screwed around like I never ever do. For some reason I felt like I deserved to, that one day. Saturday morning I went grocery shopping and my wife cleaned the house top to bottom. We grilled out cheeseburgers for lunch and I visited a buddy for an hour or two that afternoon. Then we stayed home and relaxed all night. Pretty much regular weekend stuff.
Day 2, Today, Sunday. It has sunk in that I don't have a 'Monday morning' coming up. I mowed the lawn this morning, before it got too hot. Mosquitoes are in season so I was all sprayed up with repellant, still got bit about 4-5 times. A shower staight away when I was done seemed to help the itching while getting rid of the layer of repellant.
I knew the Brewers played the Pirates at 1:10 in the afternoon so I figured that was a good time to listen to the game and get the workbench assembled. Time to finally put these pieces of wood together and make something useful!
This pic is after the second time I had to stop and spray 'Yard Guard' in the garage to keep the mosquitoes out. Don't worry, I gave it plenty of time to settle before I went in there to breathe it in. These are the sides modified with my own legs for the bench. My custom legs are 10 inches longer than the ones that came with it. I'm tall and I don't like to bend over. If 10 inches is deemed too much later, I can trim the bottoms some.
It's starting to take shape now that I have it standing, still alot of crawling around to screw in all the bottom shelf planks.
At this point I had to run to the hardware store for another phillips bit for my drill. The one I started out with was pretty worn and by this point was getting useless. None of the top boards are attached in this pic, but finally I get to do some drilling and screwing while standing upright!
And finally, the finished workbench. Just as Corey Hart hit a walk off home run to win the game for the Brewers! (I'm on vacation - I paced myself!) I have pulled everything out of the corner where it will go. Tomorrow morning I will start by moving the electrical box 2 studs to the left and up a foot or more. Then essentially empty out the garage, reorganize, and put up new shelves to hold all our stuff. See you tomorrow!
It's starting to take shape now that I have it standing, still alot of crawling around to screw in all the bottom shelf planks.
