In talking with Cat this morning it came to me that with what I want to do and what we need to do that there is an easier way to do most of it. So we took a walk and stepped off an area and it looks like it will work. Going to take a bit of work anyway but a lot less than what we were looking at previously.

So now the plan is to use the qhut to sell books out of. Use the new 14 x 66 to live in in the wooded area between here and the Bills garden area. Put the other 12 x 60 in the flat area at the top of the garden area till Mark figures out what he wants to do with it.

This way the work on the book shelves won't be totally wasted. Though all the work to create a new entry was the major killer to the other area I was looking at using the trailer.

Got almost all the books out on the new shelves now. Steve called a while back and had asked Cat how many books we had over here (or some such) and she had said 3 to 5 thousand to which I had answered 5 to 7. After thinking on it I counted a couple of shelves full and using those figures as averages figured that the new shelves are holding 3400. There are another 1200 to 1500 against the east wall in the front and between 1000 and 1200 in here on the dividing wall so any of the guesses were close. I suspect we have another 3 to 4 thousand still in Jacksonville so that will put us over 10,000 to start off with.

Tis cooling off a bit out there now that the sun has moved a bit lower. Gonna take a bit more of a break till on toward dark and then start on the west side shelving uprights. I figure a couple of boards in each section should stabilize it enough for me to get the header board(s) installed so I can start on the joists. I need to go to Marvins and Saks hardware tomorrow and see about plywood. at 12 by 16 it needs 6 sheets to cover completely. If I use 2×4's set into the 2×8's at the exposed seams I should be able to use 7/16 or whatever 1/64 they have shaved off 1/2 inch now. But with only 4 feet high I don't think we can pack too much weight on there to overload the thinner plywood if screwed around the parameter so guess I will take the time to cut and chisel slots out for the 2×4's before putting the joists in… and another run on sentence.

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