For the second time this week, I rented a trailer from U-Haul. This time it was to pick up 780 pounds of laser-cut steel stair stringers that we will be using in the River House. Pictured above is a photo from earlier this month depicting my final design. Below are the fabricated stringers loaded onto a utility trailer. On and offloading these was quite a good workout with each of the twelve averaging 65 pounds.

As if I needed more exercise, I decided that today was the day to move my very heavy jointer/planer from the garage into my shop. The ground was relatively dry and weather predictions are calling for on-and-off rain for the next several days. Using a bunch of blocks and levers, I single-handedly got the machine off its shipping pallet and onto the dolly I built yesterday. I was grateful that Kyle was able to join me after he finished work to assist with the difficult task of getting it down to the basement level and up a home-built ramp onto the shop floor.