Yesterday good morning I decide to establish a lumber storage area .
After writing my mail service for the day , I head over to our commonwealth and planned out on the nose what we require for materials , then added excess to that .
I always add extra . If a line requires 4 2x4s , I buy six . You always need more 2x4s somewhere , and it ’s no fun to run out in the midriff of a project . One box of nails ? How about two . A wombat ? How about three .
You get the idea . It ’s useful for a carpenter to have a ready supply of materials to force from rather than always have to take time out of his oeuvre to purchase more bits and slice . If you use something regularly , get more of it . Doing the same in the pantry is a good melodic theme . Why buy six cans of Lycopersicon esculentum sauce , knowing you ’ll need to go get more in a workweek ? Get 12 cans .
This mindset is also peculiarly useful in a place where shopping is inconvenient and goods are not always available . Stateside , shopping is ridiculously convenient . you may get everything you take in massive quantities , often from just a single depot .
Here it ’s not uncommon to visit three computer hardware memory in search of the pieces required for a job . One might be out of router bits , another may be sold out of varnish , a third is miss the screws you wanted – but do n’t worry , a new shipment should be in before next month some time .
Grab what you may when you may .
I realized two thing yesterday as I was headed out to measure and then purchase material .
1. I needed more materials than I could comfortable lash to the top of my underpowered minivan
2. I needed to set the corner posts of my planned lumber storage lean-to in concrete
The second realization mean that if I dig holes and set posts one sidereal day , I want to wait until the next to actually build the social system . The first recognition also intend a delay , as it requires me waiting for materials to be delivered via truck to my humble jungle abode .
All that to say , rather of work up the baseball bat storage orbit yesterday , I resolve rather to assess and get all the materials required – plus redundant – and then return home to the house and do some writing .
I manage to write 1585 words on the novel I am writing for NaNoWriMo this twelvemonth , then my phone quit working and I agnise I need to devote the bill before the function fold .
Yes , it ’s that planning thing again . It gets you .
I decided to take the youngster and Rachel to a nice beach near the position and go swimming , which made it a more pleasant slip . We did get stopped by an officer on the way there who suss out my for my license and insurance – I had the former but could n’t find the latter – which almost proceed me from make the earpiece bill defrayment in time , but I told him I was running lately and needed to go and he get me .
sluttish to parcel out with than most US police !
And so we get the measure pay and went swim in the beautiful tropical ocean until the sun set .
Today my mammy arrives from the states , in preparation for the arrival of our new baby , who is due in a couple of days .
And right now , I am waiting for a call from the driver of the legal transfer truck to allow me cognise I require to drive up to our land and unload the makings of a lumber storage surface area .
… and he just foretell . Time to prevail .
I do n’t mind not bear all the architectural plan work out as expected . Any sidereal day that cease at the beach is a good day .
