I feel like I must have updated this somewhere, but I haven't worked on it since New Year's Eve 2020.
I swear that I emptied the shed and my brother put everything back again, but at this point, I don't remember for sure.
I set up Dad's old tent a couple of weeks ago and in all of my years in the Army and Boy Scouts, this is the worst tent that I have ever used. It doesn't stay up until you stake it down, the tent has a mesh ceiling that is always open, so you need the awning, but that only extends 6" down the sides, and there aren't any guy lines or anything to keep the awning over the poles in the corner between the roof and the sides.
There are aluminum poles in the front and fiberglass in the roof.
The awning keeps sliding over the poles, creating a gap between the roof and the sides, so I kept going out and finding puddles inside.
I bought a tarp and slid it in between.
The awning extends a good distance in front of the door, but that doesn't stay out on its own, either. I wrapped the guy line around a big brick, but it is already inconvenient to have that stick out several feet. I don't want to stake it down and make it semi-permanent, but each time I go out the brick slid in and the front edge is leaning against the tent--if the pole didn't pop out again.
I fixed that a couple of times and told my brother to leave it alone, but apparently he has fixed it (at least once).
I don't know where I mentioned my immediate to-do list.
Something about notes and progress reports?
All that I managed to do on Saturday was buy another drywall bit.
I checked on-line to see how much more I would pay running to the nearby Ace instead of all of the way to Lowe's or Home Depot and maneuvering a warehouse.
All of them were charging $4!
However, Harbor Freight sells them 2 for $1.
I really hope to not need additional bits. Besides, I have another one somewhere!
I needed to ask 2 employees for help finding it.
Mom was gone for hours grocery shopping and I was about to go out and work on the shed when I realized that my brother should have eaten already, so I asked him what he wanted for dinner, and he asked for Panda Express, so i pulled up their menu on my 43" screen and had him point to what he wanted. I ordered and we were leaving to get it when Mom came home, so I left him to unload the groceries she bought since Xistday while I ran to get his dinner.
Panda Express is in front of Walmart, which also sells $4 drywall bits, Home Depot is on the other side of Walmart, and Lowe's is across the street, so at least I didn't drive to that area twice?
By the time I got him his dinner it was getting dark, so I spent altogether too long finding my headlamp.
I have others, but that is the brightest, and I just bought rechargeable batteries for it!
Normally I shower after working on projects and draw his bath while I get dressed.
I like saving the 2 gallons of water it would take to warm up.
However, I really wanted to work on the shed, so I ran the water into a bucket until it warmed up, but then my brother showed me the empty box of garbage bags, so I took him to Family Dollar.
They only had scented and generic ones, so I took him to Walmart.
At least I didn't drive to that area 3 times that day?
We found the bags right away, but he dragged me around the store forever! First he wanted to put random products back.
What is a Walmart run without seeing tons of inventory in the wrong place?
Then apparently he wanted to buy himself something nice, but he couldn't find anything nice enough. He dragged me up and down every aisle of the toy section repeatedly before looking at the swivel clips, and finally deciding on his fourth or fifth copy of "Mr. Brown Can Moo."
When we finally got home it was too late to work on the shed.