Sunday, November 30, 2014

New Storage Shed, Thanksgiving and Ancestry DNA kits

Earlier this month we bought a large storage shed and had it delivered. The building inspector came by on the 17th and approved the shed's installation.

On the 18th I attended the genealogical society's meeting and the guest speaker talked about locating military records for our ancestors. It was very interesting and I learned some things I didn't know about military records. After the meeting was over, Carol, Mary and I went to Toojay's Gourmet Deli in Vero for lunch. It was my first time eating there and everything looked good. You have to walk by the dessert counter first and it was very tempting.

Since then Mike and I made a ramp for it from plywood that we bought at Home Depot. Mike had one sheet of plywood cut in half on the diagonal at Home Depot and then we cut the halves down to the size we needed for the sides of the ramp.

Mike had bought resurface paint and painted the plywood floor in the shed and the ramp. The paint also gives the wood a rough texture.

From Our New Shed

The ground in front of the shed is uneven and Mike decided to use crushed

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Our New Storage Shed and its Installation

We have decided to do something about our garage - it's FULL. We have a 2-car garage and we can just get our car in it and if we move anything around, we have to back the car out of garage so the passenger can get in. We have a riding lawn mower, lawn tools, household generator, a RV spare tire, various things we used when we were RVing, a large tool cabinet and the other usual garage stuff.

Mike has been looking at storage sheds on the internet and we've visited a few of the local retailers to see what they have and their prices. On Monday the 3rd we drove up to Shed Movers in Titusville to see what they had and we found a 12 X 24 foot shed that someone had just traded in for a larger one. It had 3 windows, a side door, a 8' roll-up door, had a breaker box installed and 2 large shop lights. The price was a little more than what we had budgeted for and larger than what we had in mind which was a 10 X 20 foot shed, but we couldn't buy a new one any where near that price with all of the windows and extras.

Before we could have the storage shed delivered, there were a few things we had to get done. One was decided exactly where to have it placed and once we decided that, we needed to have