It was a beautiful sunny day here in Mount Vernon today – this was an especially good thing for me, because I spent the day assembling our new shed!

We bought it at Costco last week; it was simply an offer we couldn't refuse. The time, energy, and money it would have taken to build a wooden shed was too intimidating. Costco has one already built on the floor, and it looked pretty sturdy, so we decided to go for it. Fortunately, the directions were very clear, easy to understand, and not terribly difficult to pull off. The hardest part of the whole assembly was getting the ground level beforehand!

It's too bad that it took an entire day to do it, of course – I tend to be a little over-careful and meticulous about these things – but I'm really glad that it's done, and I hope that it will prove useful for us. We've already cleared a bunch of gardening stuff out of the garage, and that's a good thing. Now I just need to remember to put the lawn mower back in the shed instead of the garage when I'm done with it...