I started a new project today. I haven’t finished with the garage makeover yet, but both that and my new project are in time-sensitive phases. In the garage, I’m getting ready to sell all the stuff that I culled. The plan is to have a garage sale, but right now is not the best time to have a garage sale what with the rain and all. We’ll do better in the Spring, so there’s no urgency to do anything right now.

So, I’m turning my attention to the backyard. I’m leveling the area around my fire pit to lay a slate patio. I’m also running electricity to four points around the fire pit so that there will be plenty of places for people to plug in their phones. That’s the step I’m currently on.

Ok, So It’s Not Exactly A New Project

I started this project two years ago, but the ground was so hard I couldn’t dig down more than about an inch. So, I started again, in earnest last winter, when the ground was soft from rain. I barely started, though, before a pipe burst in the slab in my bathroom, and I had to shift my attention to that. By the time I got back outside at the end of March, the ground had dried out again. Plus, I didn’t really have a plan for what I wanted to do. I’ve had a whole year to think about it now, so all there is to do now is get to work.

I got most of the digging done last year, but there was a little more to do today so that I could bury a wire. After the rain we got last week, the ground was nice and soft. The only obstacle I ran into was the two footings I poured for my kid’s treehouse 14 years ago. It’s a good thing I haven’t sold everything in the garage. I was planning to sell the rotary hammer I bought to bust a hole in my bathroom floor last year because I didn’t think I would ever have a use for it again, but it came in mighty handy today. It made short work of those footings, and then I was able to move on to running the wire. I got half the wire run before my camera battery died, and the sun started going down. I’ll finish running the wire tomorrow.