Normal Workday?

Today was the day I was supposed to put away the semi-load of soil that is in our parking lot.

So much for that thought, a very early phone call from a trucker told us that the load of lumber for the storage room shelves was in our yard, and he was waiting for us to unload same. OK, done, now I have to cut the sheets to shelf size and get them inside before we get another rain.


Then A second phone call informed us that our new soil mixer/tray filler was being delivered this afternoon, rats that has to be put inside too. No way am I going to let that beast get wet either. So now I have two new priorities to handle.


Here is the new plan, first I'll cut the plywood, and install the shelves, I should be done before the mixer arrives with luck. Then I unload the mixer and put it into the header house, then I can get back to putting the soil away. Sounds good.


Well, the cut plywood sheets didn't quite go as expected. Cutting, carrying and fitting 24 sheets took twice as long as I planned. Fortunately the Mixer was three hours late arriving so I actually was ready when it arrived. Next surprise, the beast weighs in at 454 KG (1000 pounds). Of course the two of us could not pick the thing up, so we had to build a ramp and jerry-rig it through the double doors and into the header house. Which accounted for a couple of extra hours work.

It was starting to get dark as we closed the doors on the mixer, so we moved some of the items back into the storage room. Hey we had to try out the new shelves,
   --- Darn, moving 12 tonnes of soil is delayed again :)