Spent the afternoon cleaning up the space under the basement stairs where I’d been storing a whole bunch of flat cast-off wooden paneling, gypsum board and backer board against the eventuality that I might find a use for it someday. Well, guess what? I’ve been hauling that crap around for ages and I’ve never touched it, so I hauled it up the stairs and out to the driveway where I hacked it all to pieces with a circular saw and chucked it in the trash. If I haven’t done anything with that junk in twenty years, chances are good that I’ll never miss it.

That left me plenty of room under the stairs to erect a set of steel shelves ($41.95 from Menard’s – they keep saying I’ll save big money, but all I ever do when I’m there is spend, spend, spend) where I will be able to store the many pails, bottles and hardware I use to brew beer which, previous to this, had been cluttering up the workbench or taking up space on the floor. I didn’t realize until today that I was in possession of FIVE glass carboys!

After being cooped up all winter getting zero exercise, followed by all that clean-up, I had to have a nap. Actually, two naps. Okay, three. It was a lot of work.