This spring I’ve got a big project looming: building a cabinet for the utility closet off the dining room. It’ll be a very simple cabinet with a countertop but I’ll need all the open space in the garage that I can get to cut up the lumber and piece it together. Unfortunately, the garage became the place to “temporarily” dump stuff during the winter, so today I spent about four hours moving some things to their real homes, moving other things to a different “temporary” home, and throwing a few things in the garbage can.

There was a lot of lumber stacked on a couple saw horses that I moved up into the rafters of the garage. I’m one of those guys. There was also a lot of chunks of drywall under the lumber that I tore out of a basement wall that had to come down to make room for the water softener, sink, and washer-dryer combo. I broke them up into chunks small enough to stuff into the trash bin.

There was a lot of gardening stuff that got moved around to the back of the garage where My Darling B keeps the things she uses to work in the yard: fences, buckets, stakes, rakes, that kind of thing.

And there was a plastic laundry sink that used to be in the basement corner where I brewed beer. I hacked it into small pieces with a reciprocating saw, then stuffed the pieced into the trash bin. Always makes me happy when I find a demolition project where I can make good use of my reciprocating saw.

In between moving and demolishing things, I swept up a lot of sawdust, litter, dirt and dust. I’m very satisfied with the progress but there’s a bit more work to do before I can get to work on the cabinet.