Our one-car garage does not have a lot of extra
space in it, especially considering it also holds a riding lawn mower, a snow blower,
a backup power generator, and various and sundry yard and car tools. That doesn't
leave much room for the assortment of shoes and boots needed by Melanie and me. We had been using
a stack of cinder blocks to stuff shoes in, but they looked rather crude and the holes
were not really big enough to allow the shoes to be fully enclosed. After completing
building a set of stairs into the basement,
there were end pieces of the stair treads left over that were just the right width to
fit into the space where the cinder blocks used to be stacked. 2x3 framing lumber served
as the vertical corner members. These photos show the relatively simple effort required
to put the leftover wood to good use.
Even during the busiest times of my life I have endeavored to maintain some form
of model building activity. This site has been created to help me chronicle my journey
through a lifelong involvement in model aviation, which
all began in Mayo, MD
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