A cool 61F and partly cloudy @ 11:30, heading up to around 64F for the day's high. Winds out of the North @ 10 - 15mph. Low this morning was 46.4F.
Yesterday's rain turned out to be quite the soaker - the gauge has almost 1.75" in it ...
Got another week's worth of meds doled out yesterday first thing.
Then headed down to Menards to pick up order.
I intentionally left a couple of items off the order so I could purchase them separately and use the rebate checks to pay (can't be used when order is placed online) ... so I had to hit the desk for a slip for the six 10' sticks of 1/2" rebar and then go pull the 4' x 100' roll of welded wire fencing and head up front to pay.
Then headed back to the pick up desk to get the other order. Found out that whoever pulled it didn't bother to palletize it ... so had to do that before they could load it in the van with a tow motor.
Headed out after that and swung by TSC in Canal Fulton on the way back and picked up 1/2 mile of Bekaert 14 gauge galvanized high tensile fence wire and some additional insulators. The wire ended up being on sale this week, so saved $10 there.
Headed up to the shop after I got back and unloaded the rebar and then started looking for materials to build the fence staple starter tool.
Ended settling on a piece of 1" square tube as the socket/holder for the staples with a couple of pieces of 1/4" plate welded inside to create the slot the staple will go in.
Got that welded up, just need to do a little clean up on that and weld the handle/driver on it and it should be good to go.
Will probably head up and do that here in a few ... along with cutting the 10' sticks of rebar in half to be used to secure the welded wire cages.
Got the Menards rebate form filled out and an envelope addressed and a stamp put on it for yesterday's purchases so that's ready to be put in the mail.
Sun is now out but it's fairly breezy ... so might unload the roll of welded wire fencing into the shop where it will be warmer and start cutting that up to make the cages.
Likely still too wet to do any further mowing so that will have to wait until it dries out a bit. Probably will be a couple of days due to the cooler temps.
Beyond that just see what else comes up.
Hope everyone is having a decent day ... and not having too much trouble coping with the recent "big change" to the forum ...
