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Light Is Shed Upon The Righteous – Psalm 97:11

Today, I read Psalm 97, and when I got to verse 11, it sorta made me smile.  Mostly because, with the help of my step father and one of my daughters, we built a shed in my backyard.  Funny thing is, there isn’t much light in there.  Anyway, Psalm 97 is one of my favorite psalms and is likely going to be the basis for an upcoming one:nine song.

As you may have seen on my wife’s Facebook account, we did a lot of work this weekend.  We went to Home Depot with the intent to buy some tomato cages (gotta keep them from running away, you know), and came home with a 7x7x8.5 shed.  Isn’t it funny how that happens?

I have been wanting a shed for quite a while because I have no real place to store my lawnmower, bikes, my ladder, my various yard tools, etc.  The garage was getting very crowded.  So, my wife and I agreed to get the shed since Home Depot has a 12 months interest free thingy going on right now.

The box said “Fast And Easy Assembly.”

I don’t know what product they were talking about, but the head of that marketing department needs to consider a career change, because there was nothing fast or easy about this.  None of us can hardly move today.  I got the thing home Saturday, got it out of the box, and we got all the “pre-assembly” stuff done and the walls up on the first day.  That took us almost 4 hours.

The pre-assembly stuff was a pain.  This shed has 10 windows in it.  All of which have to have gaskets placed in them, the plexiglass placed in and the fancy frames put on the outside.  Oh, and none of the holes are predrilled.  You have to use these “self threading screws.”  There were 8 screws on each of the side windows and 12 on the front windows for a grand total of 56 screws just for windows.  Yeah, no big deal, right?  Did I mention that the holes weren’t pre-drilled?  They were “started” but not drilled all the way through.  The shed is made of a hard vinyl. And I don’t have an electric drill that works any longer, so we had to do this by hand.

My daughter, Zoe was a trooper and she did half of them herself.  I am so proud of her, because they really were hard to get in.  She’s only 10, and she was doing stuff that was hard even on us adults.

Once we got all the pieces assembled, I placed the walls down onto the base.  That wasn’t so bad, until we got to the last piece.  Because all of the other pieces were down, that last piece is rather tight to get in, but nothing the three of us couldn’t handle!

I figured we were done for the night. We were really tired and mom had the burgers and brats ready.  After we ate, we decided to call it a night.  None of us could move.  All we had left was the roof.  I figured it would be another hour or so to finish.

Next day, after church, I told Zoe that she could play today since she worked so hard yesterday.  I figured she’d like to play a little at least one day of her weekend.

But no.  Zoe was determined to help.  And she did.  I am so proud of her.

That hour job…turned into another 3 hours, but we are done.  Talk about a sense of accomplishment.  Of course, all three of us are sore beyond belief today.

Oh, and I broke my garage window.  I was trying to push the shed away from the garage, and slipped and fell right through the garage window.  It broke in about a million pieces (give or take ten or so).  Several pieces scratched up my car pretty bad, but I suffered no cuts, which is amazing because I went right through that window.

Anyway, here are the pics to prove we did it!