SATURDAY'S WORK

Today the weather was warm enough for us to get outside and do some things. Leslie overdid it, working to build a retaining wall of rocks along the alley side, as shown in this picture. That's a lot of hauling of big rocks, and her back took the brunt of it. But the results were worth it, don't you think? She also planted grasses and I think iris bulbs along there. [Clicking on each picture enlarges it.]
Meanwhile, I removed the original door handle & lock & installed a deadbolt lock on the sunporch door. This will allow me to park the truck in the garage and come in the back door. I still need to install a replacement door knob and lock set, but I have the set ready to be put on.

This next picture shows another thing I did: paint the strip over the garage door on the north side of the garage. This gives you an idea of what the walls will look like.
I thought I would show the interior of the new garage, with the lights I installed last Saturday.
Following is another picture of the garage interior, taken from the corner you see above. This one shows the recycled old garage doors. They will do nicely.
The Missouri Southern semester starts Monday, so I am afraid I will get to work on the garage only on Saturdays from now on. I have taken one of Art Saltzman's classes as an overload, a class I have never taught, so the semester will be rough again. Art died on Tuesday, January 8, of a brain aneurysm. What a shock.