13F and cloudy @ 08:00, only heading up to around 16F for the high today. Local news says some lake effect snows bands have set up, depending on where those eventually winds up we could see some of the white stuff here. Heavy Freezing Spray Warning issued for Lake Erie.
Low tonight supposed to be 9F.
Was up for better than 24 hours straight on ... Wednesday (?) ... went to bed and only slept for 3 hours before I woke up so I got back to it.
Have made good progress over the last several days out in the garage cleaning, straightening up, and organizing. Pegboard organized with tools and nearly full. Need to build a rack to hang clamps on to free up some space there.
Got table on table saw cleaned off and waxed, hopefully that will let things glide a little smoother.
Cleared a path to the tile saw so I can finally get to that. LOL.
Got the drill press table unpacked and put together.
Long folding table almost cleared off so it can be taken down and moved up to the shop for the clean up and organizing up there. Have some other stuff down here that needs to go up there as well, likely won't get to it until this coming Wednesday when it's supposed to warm up. Supposed to be almost 60F (57F) this coming Thursday but they are calling for rain.
Had to run down to the corner yesterday and pick up another 10 gallons of diesel for the torpedo heater. That (the cost and the fumes) has me seriously looking at sticking a mini-split out there. Doubt if it would keep it all that warm out there when it gets really cold out, but might make it tolerable or easier to heat. Plus the AC in the summer.
The space is 24' x 24' and has a 10' ceiling. I know there is at least some insulation in the attic but the walls do not appear to have any insulation at all.
And that brings up another issue: there is only a single electrical outlet out there on the back wall and it's controlled by the switch for the light on the outside corner of the garage. So the current plan is to come out of the basement on the wall shared by the house with some 12-2 romex into an LB, go up a couple of feet, drop a single outlet by the door going into the house then pvc conduit straight up into the attic and once there go across the width of the garage to the north wall where the low workbench shelves are (and all the woodworking equipment are) and drop down through another piece of PVC conduit to a to a two gang box. This falls at the peak of the roof so plenty of room to move around although I don't relish the thought of clambering around up there.
I have the romex - and may have the conduit as well (need to check) - so the only outlay would be the LB and a couple of boxes.
Woman has been working on cleaning off the silicone, soap scum and water deposits off the tile, hopefully she can get that finished up in the next few days.
She made enchiladas the other day which were quite tasty, probably kill those off today.
She also ran down and got the tags renewed on the van while She was out doing grocery shopping ... so we're roadworthy on that again, just have to remember to put the sticker on. LOL.
Amazon delivered some stick-on labels for (previously used) file folders yesterday so we can relabel/reuse them, Woman plans on working on that project during Her couch time.
Amazon was saying the drill press was due to be delivered yesterday, but the last update from UPS Tracking was on the 30th in AZ so it never arrived. This morning shows it at the local terminal that serves out area so it will probably arrive sometime today. I prepared some hickory chips for the UPS driver to reward him for his efforts in the cold ...
Have a number of other items due in today from Amazon as well.
Agenda for today will likely consist on working in the house (to avoid having to heat the garage)
Possibly get back into the shower valve project and see if I can figure out what's up with the drip on that.
Maybe a trip to Menards to return some items and pick up bird/critter food and the electrical pieces/parts.
Hope everyone has a great Friday ...
