{"id":2456,"date":"2022-08-05T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2022-08-05T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:57:07","slug":"what-i-did-on-my-mid-summer-vacation-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/what-i-did-on-my-mid-summer-vacation-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did on My Mid-Summer Vacation: Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plan for the day was to limp my broken butt out to the yard and get the three beams in place and leveled. While having breakfast, Lowe’s had other ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, obviously, there is no longer a rush for me to get the beams in place. I am so mad. I’d be less mad had I not actually called their Customer Service and been assured that the order was going to be delivered on the 3rd…when I totally knew that this was not reality. So, so mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what’s a old man to do? I messed around with some genealogy for a while, then my thoughts turned to that mung shelf. Sometime between setting it up to cook in the sun and this morning, I had the thought that it might be a good idea to sniff it. Amazingly, it did not stink of mouse urine or mold. It smelled of chainsaw chain oil! I can work with that! So off to construction101.com<\/a>, where I had previously seen plans for a garden stool<\/a> that caught my eye. This calls for a 6′ length of 1″ x 12″. Hey! Isn’t that exactly… of course it is! So I sent them a dollar for these free plans and got to work putting it together in the backyard woodshop. It turned out pretty damn nice for $1 in free plans and a cleaned up piece of mung shelf wood. It still needs some paint, but that isn’t my department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n