Wednesday, May 6, 2020 -- Marina Del Rey - Pirate Goldfish

This is one of the few boats that I recognize, because of the pirate goldfish on the sail...  It goes out pretty frequently.

Garage Organizing - part 6

More utilization of the space between the upper cabinets and the gray flat file.  Put a small Kennedy tackle box and an old Stromberg carburetor parts bin above the Kennedy lower cabinets.

At least for now, I put the cordless drills near the chargers.

Although this is a nice arrangement, I think I have to put something here that better utilizes the available space.

I stacked some of the books on the top shelf to better pack them in.  Of course the downside is that I can't tell which books they are!

The narrow book case is not even close to blocking the garage door that actually gets used sometimes.  I'll probably find something to store in the gap space at the end of the tall book case and the end of the door it's sitting in front of...

Garage Organizing - part 5

Decided to move this toolbox in place of the toolbox base I had here before.  This arrangement better utilizes the vertical space under the upper cabinets.

A place to hang this set of wrenches...  There will be stuff in front of it to utilize the space, but they'll still be pretty accessible.

Plenty of space to open the top lid of the toolbox fully.

Placed the battery chargers on top of the wider toolbox base.

Moved the narrow tool box base to the left side of the flat file.

Thursday, May 7, 2020 -- Marina Del Rey

Backyard -- Trimming & Clearing

The kids did an incredible amount of work to take down a dead lemon tree, other smaller dead trees, brush & vines... 

They made piles of the green debris & we've been taking it out using the Green bin every week.  Have even been borrowing the neighbor's bin to double up the removal but it's quite a lot of stuff and will take many weeks/months to get rid of...

The right rear of the back yard is pretty much cleared.

The left rear of the back yard is also pretty much cleared.  There's a small pile of debris to get rid of.  This is the corner that the lemon tree used to be...  Maybe a new lemon tree?  Or?

The main pile of stuff to get rid of.  First, the larger pieces will be cut down to small sizes to better fit in the green bin...

The last area that needs to be trimmed & cleared is on the side of the house with the concrete block wall...

Garage Organizing - part 4

This is the light switch that's behind the Kennedy tool box base.  You have to reach around but it's still accessible.

These two outlets will be behind some tool boxes.  There will be enough space to plug things in but it won't be so easily accessible. A necessary compromise for now...

The bicycle and steering wheels got reorganized in this area to make things a little more compact.

It's really nice to have this open space on this side of the garage but it can't stay this way because a lot of larger items need to come back into this space...

Moved the narrower Kennedy tool box base in front of the outlets.  I'm not sure about this arrangement yet...

Still need to move the blue shelf up...

The Red vise is just sitting on the back counter & needs to find a different place...

New "cage-less" water bottle for the bike

I applied a penetrant before removing these screws, just in case.  The top screw was somewhat corroded and took some effort to remove.  Luckily, the threads were not damaged.  The bottom screw came off easily.  The top one is subject to more of my sweat... 

This is the penetrant I used before removing the screws.

These are the mounting screws that hold the bottle (no cage).

The bottle has built-in "clips" to attach to the "studs" on the bike.  I had bought this a long time ago but finally got around to trying it out.

On the downtube, I have a "normal" bottle cage.

This is how the bottle looks when mounted to the seat tube.  I was a little concerned that it would not be secure when riding over rough pavement.  I've used it several times so far and it seems to be very secure.

Garage Organizing - part 3

Rotated the lower bookcase to be up against the wall.  It's just a little bit wider than the gap between the flat file and the tall book case but it will work.  The light switches are just above the top of the book case & are not blocked.

I had to move the tall book case away from the wall slightly but it's still not bad.

I'll use the space above the book case for storing a tool box an other stuff.  They'll be easy enough to move if I need access to the circuit breaker box or the light switches.

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This Kennedy tool box base fits well but the space above it is now too narrow to put a tool box on top.  Will have to figure something else out.

Light switches...

Marina Del Rey -- Sunday, May 3, 2020 -- went with S

The bike path was pretty busy.  As usual, it was very windy riding out to the beach.  I rode in front to block the wind.  On the way back, it's a nice tailwind.  We averaged over 15 mph on the ride.  

The water is so red.  It was near clear a few weeks ago...

Garage Organizing - part 2

The power outlets (120 & 220) are going to end up behind the Kennedy Tool Box Base cabinets.  Part of the compromise to be able to utilize the back of the flat files for storage...

This tall & narrow book case can move a little more away from the wall because the garage door behind it is the one that's used the least and doesn't really need to be accessible.

I think I'm going to rotate this book case so that it's up against the unfinished wall.  It's low enough that it won't interfere with the light switches.

The small blue open storage next to the window can be moved up to create more space under it for a tool box.  Also, the stuff on top of the corner storage cabinet can be better organized.

It won't stay this way, but it's really nice to have a completely empty horizontal surface!

The batter chargers will be stored on top of one of the Kennedy tool box bases, so that they'll still be somewhat accessible.