I finally got back to working on my wife's garden shed this afternoon. The job-salvaged replacement door is narrower and taller, so I ripped out the old header, cleaned up the triangle above, did a little grinding, and installed 3/4" jacks along with the new header and cripple after ripping down a 2x6 remnant to 2x3's. The shed was built some 50 years ago for tool and misc storage when we were renting a small cottage down Cape and was moved here a couple years later when we first bought this lot. My wife reminded me it was the first thing I ever built for us. Later it became the outdoor home for our four large dogs as part of their 16'x 36', pen. Those dogs are a memory, the pen's been reduced by 2/3's--it's now the trash and recycling surround--and the shed holds my wife's garden and yard stuff.
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It was a bit hot and steamy by the time I finished up and got the plywood on the little gable end. I was surprised at how many tools and boxes of fasteners I had to put away having brought things out a couple at a time--always seems to be the way with these small jobs--so I went and got the wheelbarrow.
Back on topic, it was a Micarta Military2 Monday.
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