More handyman challenges. I bought a nice little storage rack from Canadian Tire today. Easy to put together. All went well until the last screw. The damn thing wouldn't go in. I loosened all the other screws a bit more ('cos they weren't fully tight yet - I know you don't fully tighten until the very end) but that didn't help. Took it all apart and tried another screw in that spot but that didn't help either. The dowels have a metal shaft in them and this one was screwed. 

Step 1 - empty the box, lay all the pieces on the floor

Step 2 - put together...

Step 3- screwed...

Looks ok - screw the screw

Might have to glue that dowel. That's for tomorrow, along with back to the lighting. I bought 2 of those as well. We'll see how that goes.

So I started a blog last summer called Mostly Kayaking but it never got very far because my kayak stayed dry and all in all it was a crap summer and a crap fall and now I'm picking up and heading out on a somewhat new road full of challenges some big some small some fun some not- suffice to say here I stand one woman, one cat, one house, one yard, one car, one truck, one hell of a lot of stuff I know nothing about. And so the journey begins....

Saturday - it's the handyman things. There are lots of things around here that I actually do know how to do - or sort of know how to do and there are things I can probably maybe figure out but there's a lot of new stuff I have to learn. Even the small stuff. So today's plan: lawnmower, adding stabalizer so it could sit all winter. Stabalizer bought with the help of a friend so I knew I had the right stuff. Locate the jerry can, check how to open and close said jerry can. Measure out stabalizer into jerry can. Put in truck. Off to gas station. Pick up 10 liters. And I wanted to check the pressure in the truck tires but do you think I could figure out that gas station air pump. Check the guage it said- what gauge! (ok so I googled it when I got home and I think I could do it now). I just stood there looking at it and then got back in the truck. Since then my neighbour used a compressor thingy and put air in all the tires (which were really low btw). Back to the lawnmower. Put gas in. Pull starter cord. Nothing. Pull again...and again...and again... and so it goes. Nothing. Crap. See you in the spring lawnmower. Next on the list - put new light bulbs in the front door lights and the pole light out front. Got on the ladder (scary). Couldn't for the life of me get the light apart to even get close to a light bulb. Neighbour to the rescue again who said it's crap, and old, and I should get new ones. Next week....