Harbor Freight had a sale.  $40 off of their spot welder.  With the money I saved, I went ahead and purchased the 2-year replacement plan.  Need to get a receptacle to fit into my 220 outlet I use for my welder!

Got the hose reel I got for Christmas installed along with mounting my grinder and vise on the workbench:

Completed the patching last weekend.  Needed to add a new strip under the garage door to help seal things.  I am waiting until Sunday to park the truck in the garage to let it dry completely.

Also brought my mini-fridge home from the office because I will use it in the garage more than at work.  The fridge fits nicely between the cabinets for my workbench!  Here is my new layout:

This weekend I should finish the unpacking\organizing and be able to get some REAL work done!

Went to Salvation Army today and got a new cabinet (from Mayo – Very Solid!).  Also bought a parts organizer from Menards (above cabinet).  Now I need to figure out where to put it and get some muscle to help hang it!

Need to patch the cement under the garage door to help seal it up for this winter.  Here are some before pictures:

Here is the first pass at building it up (still need to do more):

A couple of pictures of Java:

Need to Rake the lawn today and then get back to Patching the floor.  Next weekend brings a chance of snow showers!!

Dry-walling is complete and heater is working.

Workbench:

New light and winterized A/C:

Now need to get the garage organized!

Finally finished the ceiling.  All that remains now are the walls for the front half!

Drywalling the ceiling.

Remounted the opener.  The board that was holding it cracked, so I used a 2×8 instead:

Last weekend, we got the rafters added along with some supporting boards:

Note in the above picture, there are some boards that needed to be trimmed that extended below the rafter.  Here they are trimmed:

I still need to add rafter boards at the front and back of the front half before I can insulate and drywall.  The front of the garage has some wires for the garage opener which needs to be re-located.

Think I have figured out my garage door closing problem.  Towards the bottom when closing, the door sides from side-to-side and sometimes stops the opener.  Well, my garage opening walls are not straight up and down, but the opener is – see pics:

I also measured the distance between the rails in the middle and bottom and they are off by at least an inch.  So after dry-walling, I can work on the door as time permits.  Might have to get some help with that!  The goal for this next week is to get the ceiling insulated and dry-walled for the front half!