Rained out

Well the weatherman was right.  It is raining and it is a cold slow drizzle.  I worked on the second garden box this morning.  I even got my son to take pictures, because I forgot to do that earlier before I built the first box.  I had to take a break to drive to the Surprise Lowe's so my cub scout AJ could watch a video and get a patch.  It started raining so now we are just waiting for a break in the rain so we can go move the bricks and put the box where it is supposed to be.  Then we will fill it with new garden dirt we got from Lowe's.  Sorry but I underestimated how much dirt it would take to fill up the box.

While at Lowe's I stared at the Kregg Pocket Drill kit.  It looks so fancy compared to the generic one I got from the Home Depot.  Of course my not fancy pocket drill kit cost $30.00 and the super fancy Kregg cost $130.00.  They do the same thing so what the hell?  I guess it cost a whole lot to run that infomercial every Sunday.  I bet if you look you will find it on this weekend.  :)

As a family we also picked up 2 Pinewood Deurby Kits for the boys to make.  Looks like it is a project above the kids skill level, oh well.  I guess their first cars will just be messy and rough around the edges.  They can make better ones next year.

Dirty...but proud

Feeling proud right now.  I actually finished something I started.  Okay, really I finished about 50% of what I started.  But hey that is farther then normal for me.  Definitely I am dirty.  I worked on my first of three wood projects.  These are wood projects that I have had locked in my disorganized mind for months.  The first, I hope is the easiest, our garden box for our patio apartment. 

So the garden box.  I made it very cheap, oddly enough out of the same stuff you make wood fences out of.  Even odder the day after I decided that they were the best and cheapest material to use, I found a website that used the same thing!   It’s a place called anaAna White list designs that are free and easy to build, you should go there if you have some furniture you need or just interested in dreaming. 

I went to Home Depot and picked up 12 fence boards and had the man, after it took a half hour to find him, cut off the “dog ears” off all of them and then cut 4 of them in half.  I picked up some nice 1 ¼” wood screws, a bottle of wood glue, some grade stakes and 4 bags of dirt.  Yeah, me!  I remembered all the things that I needed to build the boxes including the nice little dowels I am going to use to make the “dog ears” into garden labels.

The first of the 2 boxes is finished, put in the garden spot, filled with the dirt and that is that.  I intend on finishing the second box in the morning.  So I feel dirty after dumping the bags of dirt into the box.  I feel even dirtier knowing that I just cleared off the poo from the Danny’s dirty diapers.  I think I need a shower, I am kind of itchy.