I am excited. I’m finally going to have a decent size shop to work in. I have been working out of my one car garage for the past 12 years. After five months of dealing with the city permitting department, we broke ground on the project last week.

It is going to be a 22 X 24 foot building, the biggest the City of St. Petersburg will allow, while also keeping my old garage. The good news is it will have 16 foot tall walls, plenty of room to put in a lift. Per city code, the construction and appearance has to match my house, so it will be wood construction, with a painted Hardie Board exterior, and a shingle roof.

Also, this past week I was at the Daytona Turkey Rod Run, and Advantage Lifts had a display there, and was running a show special. If you bought one of their 9000 pound four post lifts at the normal price, they would throw in a free rolling bridge jack, a $1995 value. So I whipped out the credit card, and got one on order. They will deliver it to my house, when the garage is done.843649FB-CCAD-468A-A251-CDD0BC50AEB1.jpeg11DC1EDD-46D8-4530-9D3A-61B33EC5859B.jpeg76EE1C2F-9689-4572-AEAE-9143747561C8.jpeg