Christine Bennee, August, home improvement

August was a month of hurry-and-try-to-get-everything-done-around-the-house-before-school-starts kind of a month.  It was  a good plan, because I am in school as well as the kiddos, and anatomy, physics, and bio-organic chemistry are taking all of my time now!

I had this wall in my garage that looked like a perfect place to put a shelf to hold the big pile of boxes full of junk cherished holiday decorations that had  been sitting on the garage floor for the year and a half since we moved here.

So I researched on pinterest and found some instructions, went to Lowe's and started measuring.

My teenage girls had to hold those frames in place while I drilled them in.  I determined that they need to do more upper body workouts based on the cries of "Hurry, my arms are burning!!!!"

But hooray, all that stuff is off the ground and out of the way.

The other big project I did was disassemble a shed with my dad.  He decided to upgrade from the wooden shed he built a few years ago to a ginormous one that will be a workshop/rv parking. He offered the old shed to anyone that would come take it away.  We've been thinking about getting a shed (our last house had one, and I loved not having the lawn mower, yard equipment, and tools crammed between cars in the garage).  So I took it apart.  

before we started

everything was labeled so it could be reassembled later

almost done!

The shingles and one or two base pieces were a loss, but we were able to salvage almost everything else.  Taking it apart and loading it was a big 2-day job, but transporting it to my house was the biggest pain.  Now the pieces are sitting on my recently cleared garage floor awaiting a cement pad to be poured in the backyard.

Next month I'll tell about budgeting and starting to run again.  :)