Planning, and then Changing the Plan.

During this process I found that a squirrel had been
caching acorns behind the siding. Somehow I felt that
what I was doing was very much the same.

So my brilliant idea was this: make a large hole in my house, and then fill it with truck parts. My wife seemed frightened skeptical concerned at first, but I convinced her that I had never collapsed a roof before and the worst case scenario here would be the roof sagging a bit or me falling through the ceiling. Fortunately neither one of these happened.

Once the hole was made, the plan was then to get the pieces out from under the truck and put them up there, get the pieces out of the shed and out those up there, clean out the shed and move the lawn care stuff out there, and use the vacancy in the garage to set up a more permanent workbench.

As it turns out, moving things into the attic is a whole lot of work. Especially heavy or bulky or awkward objects. As I was beginning the cleaning out the shed phase of the operation, I had an idea- I have two pairs of rear fenders, but only need one pair. Rather than haul one pair upstairs for spares, it would make more sense to simply select the best pair and attempt to sell the other pair. (Someone will buy them- after all, I did.) The fenders in the shed got moved to the back porch for a later examination and comparison.

Often, people lie awake at night and think about things. This happened to me one night, and I was thinking about how to go about fixing the truck. Pulling off the hood, inner fenders, and radiator support to work on the engine seemed tempting, as I have some of the parts to do so. It would, unfortunately, result in even more body panels lying about that would have to be stored, a problem I'm trying to alleviate. The engine parts I have are pretty small and safely stored out of the way. Aside from the engine, I really would like to set to work on the cab floor, but I lack the repair panels (and the needed budget) to do so. I could work on the remainder of the cab, but it seems more sensible to repair the floor first. All right, I'll work on the bed then. I've got lots of big pieces for it taking up space, and it should be a relatively straightforward repair, relatively speaking. So that's the direction I'm going to go for now until I amass enough panels to start the cab floor.