OH man you and me both. I am going in too many directions at once and feeling like I am not getting anything done. Of course we are getting things done as seen by your pile of wood projects and my messes all over the house garage and garden. I am having a case of the but firsts myself this morning so decided to just sit with a cup of coffee and sort it all out a little bit better. In the mean time I have done dishes made bed vacuumed the house cleaned the litter box and spray painted a big flower pot to plant the patio tomato in. I will let it dry as long as I can, thinking this afternoon although I believe spray paint dries quickly.

I LOVE your drying rack and think it will be really useful for you. You are so talented with the wood working. Send some my way today as I think this might be the day to start building the tall kitty kennel. BUT first I need to move the things away from the top of the stairs out there I had planned to bring down Saturday and ran out of gas. LOL 5 minutes and four trips up and down the stairs should do it.

I wish I could totally commit to what I want to do on this kennel and just do it. I make myself mad when different ideas keep coming to me.

I will send good thoughts your direction the painting will go well and you can paint one thing to get it out of the way to open up a hole to be able to paint more.Catch you this evening with a report from both of us to see how we did. I am SURE your work is going to look much better than mine.

Well half the day is gone. I accomplished one thing. I finally have a plan. I needed to make things less complicated. It is a small kitty house nothing more. I need to keep pounding this into my head. Now I can finally move on and it should go fairly simple from here on out. I sure hope so!!!

I am waiting on paint to dry. Even with my big garage I only have so much room to spread out. Like you I have to paint in sections. It seems easier to paint then put the catio together the maybe do some touch up painting as needed. I think I can carefully stack up what I did get painted to dry further and start in on the next round of pieces. Or consider tomorrow is another day. Feeling a bit tired now. I did make progress. and am happy for it. Glad you did too.

ya'll are doing great! that rack looks super!

i'm doing dishes from 3 or 4 days ago... ha! and took trash to my sister's.

I couldn't keep up with you all... but I'll be happy the dishes are done for now.

Steph doing dishes in one house chore I enjoy. The hot water on my aching hands feels so soothing.

I did not go back out to work on my catio any more. I planted a bottle tree instead after much research to figure out where my line to the septic tank is. I did not want to get into it or hit it with the post hole digger. I know I got my hole in 24 inches I hope I am still not right on top of it. so post is in I still need to put the pegs in to hold the blue bottles. I will paint the post on a day we have really good weather. Maybe tomorrow.

Steph - part of my problem right now is I am not getting the basic housecleaning done i.e. dishes and sweeping because there is stuff everywhere. It is driving me a bit batty. Lol.

Plus I have been eating leftovers all week. Tomorrow I really need to cook something. Which will make a new mess.

I do see some light at the end of the tunnel. I just need to keep my little finishing factory going - and if the sun comes out I can do some work outside or on the porch. I have a second plastic project table at the shop - but there is yet another woodworking (stock for pizza peels) project piled on it. I didn't bother to excavate it.

Maybe some installation photos by Sunday....

AH those plastic working tables. I LOVE mine. I used to use it in the house as a sewing table. Now it is living in the garage and might be set up as an all the time thing for a second work bench for me in front of my shelves. They are great.

I stripped the louvers out of the last two doors so now have the three door frames to paint. I had to come in and get coffee and warm my hands before I start the painting. Hoping to get them done today and maybe the shelves for kitties cut and painted. That is a lot of space needed for painting so not sure how I will manage it. It is sunny here today too.

My cooking is in my little hamilton beach grill and it wipes out easily with damp paper towel. Some times I will do essg in a small fry pan and it also wipes out easily. My dishes for the day are two bowles , if I do eat two meals some times I only eat once a day, two forks and the cheese slicer. Oh and my coffee/tea cup.Dishes do not take me long and I always do them after breakfast which would be the dinner bowl too. I am so done with cooking after doing all the special cooking for Joe when he was sick.

Back to it for me. I really want to get this catio done. I know it is going to be awhile yet but I need to keep plugging away at it.

Well I primed the rack part - and painted the back of the wall mounted part. It is damp and dismal here today so the latex enamel is drying very slowly. My grand discovery I that I can move the WM part on top of my bathtub very carefully - then I can actually paint the rack today. Woohoo!!!

OHHHH Agmss that is great you found more working room. We must be on same wave length I found I could lay down the 8 foot 30 inch wide shelves board down and get it painted too. I am also waiting on paint to dry. It was supposed to be up to 70 degrees today. I do not think it is going to make it. It is slightly overcast and very cold wind blowing.

I still need to paint the 2 by 2 boards that will hold the shelves up. I am now totally out of room for this last bit and I am also running out of paint. I might have to go two tone. LOL I also need to do second coat on what I just painted then flip and do two coats.

I also need some trip pieces. They will have to wait until another trip to town. The cage can be put together with out the trim. It just makes it look better.

Meanwhile while I wait for paint to dry I have house plants to water garden plants to plant and a bottle tree to finish. It will not be painted for now. I really do not have enough paint for that.

"Steph - part of my problem right now is I am not getting the basic housecleaning done i.e. dishes and sweeping because there is stuff everywhere. It is driving me a bit batty. "

that's me too - especially since last Nov when my eyeball went nutso. It mostly just closed down. doc called it 'acute ocular closure'. urgent to get to specialist to save my sight...so he sent me to the specialist. even these months later, I don't see things without my glasses. I need them to do dishes right now. And with that and my other meds I pretty much done in. Slept about 12 hrs last night ( well, from about 3 am to 2.30 pm). that totally messes up my sleep cycle. Then, after I wake up I need to take my meds - but I so often forget and it takes a few hrs after I take them for me to be in any way functional.

the woman I hired is here again - outside working on weeds. it's good to see my desert dirt again. she is a hard worker - but she just storms ahead with things - things I might not even want down. she ran me out of water on Friday. but she brought I think 20 gals or so on Saturday and put in my tank. enough to do dishes and wash off until Wed when the tank will be filled up. she watered weeds to make them easier to pull...

Steph

I have lots of water for you - it is dripping eroding streaming gurgling burbling melting everywhere here right now. Which is wonderful if unpleasant to work in - we had a very very dry summer last year.

Progress was made yesterday. My little table got a workout. As soon as something was dry enough to move I would paint or prime something else. One more coat on the rack. Then I need to figure out the hinges and the French cleat.

And here is my other painting project- one of four 8' photo ledges. Although these will be for some food storage as well as art.

I must say I am a terrible painter! No matter how much I try there are drips, holidays, chunks and bumps. I am trying really hard to not obsess.

The other reason my home is in chaos. Seedling season! I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. And the Sun ☀️ is coming out.

Progress! One project installed! I have to spend some time cleaning up pencil marks and things like that. But still.... the shelves are up. I debated how high to put the top shelf - I have room to put up 24" frames.

This isn't quite what I plan to put up here but I couldn't resist putting something up immediately.

Now my table is free for the next project. Maybe tonight but I am exhausted.

That really turned out good. Wish I liked to dust. I'd steal that idea.

Shelves look great. I like the art on top with same shelves for some food items and other things. For sure cleared some clutter. I also like the way you can switch your art around for a new look with out the holes.

I finished my painting project except for fresh cut edges I will be making. I could not deal with any of it today. I needed a break from it.

Your seedlings also look nice and healthy. Are they all for you are you selling some to friends or a nursery?

Last year I grew a ton of beautiful tomato and pepper seedlings - I got them up into 1 and 2 gallon pots - gave them to anyone who mentioned gardening in my presence. I need to tone it down this year. I don't mind giving seedlings away but the potting soil got expensive. I will have extra seedlings but I am going to try to only pot up bigger ones for my sister, mom and myself.

As far as open vs closed storage ratio. Not for now - but eventually I would like to find an old dresser or sideboard to replace the wire shelves where the microwave and toaster are located.

Ok the rack is up! With a few issues. I like it and think it will be useful but installation was a bit frustrating. (Understatement)

I used a metal cleat (rated to 200 lbs) to hang it. The wall stud locations were problematic and then I bumped into a plate or some other chunk of metal. So it ended up slightly lower and off center. I used 2.5" screws because I could only get a few into studs.

I used these box lid hinges rather than regular ones. I think I might prefer hinges and a chain at the top. It is nice the rack can be pulied into position and it will stay. But it is a bit wonky.

OH GRRRRR on the studs not being in the right place. I am facing that myself with the kitty house. Fortunately I mostly need the studs to keep it from tipping over since it is tall. Not really for support . I have run into this in my own house for studs not being where I need them. It is why I let Joe hang my laundry rack. And with wet things hanging on it it needs to hold some weight. I never even considered the hinges you used. They do look nice. Is there enough slant to let longer things hang down so they are not laying on the below piece? I really love this flat design of this drying rack. And honestly with out having a dryer I NEED my drying rack. I wish he had hung it a little bit lower though. LOL He hung everything his height and I was a little more than half a foot shorter than his 6 foot.

Last bit of progress for now - and my favorite I think. Now I can go back to slowly moving stuff, cleaning cobwebs, painting and putting up the rest of these ledges. I can now move around to sweep, clean and think.

Thank you for tolerating my (too) many posts. I appreciate the feedback.

Never too many posts. Especially since you also include photos. And I am LOVING the little couch as a window seat. Brilliant!!! I also see the drying rack does pull out further. It really is a wonderful and useful addition. And you built it!!! Also love the added ledges. I think you will get good use out of them too even if you do have to dust once in awhile.

I think I felt a bit like you are now when I was doing my whole house re-arrange. 5 rooms involved if you do not count the laundry room and master back and master closet. I guess the only room I did not change was the kitchen and I did pull all the food out of the pantry and many cooking things gone out of the cupboards.

As long as you keep plugging away. I feel you really stayed pretty focused over this big project.

agmss, your beadboard rack is awesome!

I haven't even begun my woodworking projects, having finally found someone with a table saw. I've got the garden to set up this spring and just came back from vacation with new banjo strings, new books on arranging music for hammered dulcimer, sewing patterns and ideas for weaving.

Fortunately all my goals are pretty open ended.

Well I had begun a few projects over the winter in my late dad's studio/shop - where my sister and I run a small business. Suddenly the weather improved and we needed to spread out to work - so I needed to get my projects out of the way pronto.

I still have more to do - hopefully not as many at once.

I don't use the table saw - it was old when dad bought it in the sixties. No safety features and it is too tall for me. We have a really good bandsaw, a crappy one and a compound miter saw etc...

OHHHHHH DOH I have a , what Joe called, Chop saw. Why am I messing with the tiny hand battery saw. so glad I read this. I will be setting the chop saw up now. Sheese!!! not sure what compound miter saw is. Might be the same as chop saw.

OK I tried to look at photos and I think this is the same as CMS Cool. I know how to use it too. Used it a lot. Just totally forgot I have it out there. Now to get it lifted up to the workmate bench. If I can lift that snow plow blade and bracket I should be able to do the saw. wish me luck.