Monday, April 27, 2009
Power to the Shed
Whitney and I did some more work outside this weekend. We cut down and graded the path area and then firmly set the flagstones. We also bought a few more to finish the path all the way to the shed. Then we started to fill the rest of the path with river rock gravel. It will take a few trips buying a few bags to get all we need. The Land Cruiser could carry them all at once, but I don’t want to pull the cargo unit out, and we know we’ll be going back to Home Depot many more times before we’re done. We will have to pull up the logs that separate the path from the grass when we till and lay the sod. So we are only laying gravel in the path up to about 6” from the log. It has this unfinished look to it right now as a result. But we like what is there. I think we’ll be quite happy with the finished product.
I also ran electricity to the shed. There was a circuit in the garage that was dedicated to a freezer outlet. Instead of drilling up inside the wall to reach the circuit panel, I just tapped into that, ran it along a couple feet and then through a hole into the crawl-space and across the house. It was not fun working in the crawl space. There is lots of rat feces down there, though surprisingly clean otherwise. Before we finished grading the path and setting the flagstones, we trenched enough to bury some wire out to the shed. I wired up an outlet, some lights inside the shed, and some lights outside the shed. A little more work is needed to make it all safe (GFCI circuit breaker and a cover plate) but we turned it on with the current breaker and admired our lights and being able to see in the shed. Even during the day, with only one window, it used to be very dark in there.
While I was crawling around, Whitney was working on the irrigation system for our new vegetable garden. We’re doing a seasonal tap off the hose bib and taking that down into an underground box for the timer, back-flow preventer, and pressure regulator. A line then runs out to the vegetable garden and around various ways. She’ll figure out exactly where once we actually plant stuff.
In other news, after almost two weeks of frustrating attempts, I finally got the intake manifold off the Scirocco. It involved much dremeling and hacking at a stripped allen head bolt. Now I think I have things as far torn apart as I want. The next nice free evening I have, I’ll roll the Scirocco out into the driveway and start spraying the engine bay. Hose water, engine degreaser and much scrubbing and I’ll have something I can spot oil leaks in rather than something that is just a big pile of oil and grime itself. Once I get it cleaned or at least cleaner, I’ll put together a purchase order from a number of online places and get that going. Then I can start reassembly.
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