Today I was able to finish the other two walls of the fuel shed pretty easy, even factoring in the "processing" of the scrap wood that I have piled up. Having the dimensions of the other two walls made things easy enough in that I mirrored the other side wall and was able to use the gap in the front to make the last wall. I did have to scope out some door sizes on the Lowe's website to get some numbers of the dimensions of the most common door sizes so I can place the studs on the front wall at the right spacing to accommodate a door. After getting that taken care of I was able to nail the remaining studs on the front wall frame and finish up erecting the frame. At this point all that's left in the framing stages is placing some boards along the top with the proper spacing to allow me to screw down the pieces of corrugated sheet metal that I do have available. I'll also be able to make the frames for the drums and get them situated as well. With that I can dismantle the old shed, even before putting up the plywood and the door.
After finishing the work on the fuel shed, I had to water the garden beds as I hadn't done so yesterday (despite it actually raining over only our area today). In the meantime I ended up having picked a good amount of cherry tomatoes, then found several figs that were ready to be picked, a couple more pears, and several red and green apples. Most of the pears on the trees are small by normal pear standards but are ready, most of the time I know they're ripe when they fall from the tree and I catch em before some critter does. There's still plenty of pears on the trees and apples as well. The muscadines aren't quite ready but when they are, there will be a shitload of those to pull. In the meantime, I won't be needing any tomatoes for my salads, and I'll have some snacks to boot!
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