Raised flower bed showdown: Part 2
After I hauled all of my oh-so-sustainable cedar lumber home from Gabriola to build my raised cedar flower beds, I decided I needed to build a fifth box in the front yard to make the most of the sunniest spot in my yard.
Time for a trip to Hell Depot.
Despite the fact that Angus (my partner) insisted I could use a jigsaw to cut through 4×4 cedar posts, I decided to buy a proper skill saw to do the task, and left him at home because he clearly has NO CLUE.
When I arrived, I encountered some good ol’ sexism on the loose: smirks and jeers as I ferried my new skill saw through the lumber section, and a weak-ass attempt at unloading the WORST pieces of lumber in the entire lot onto me. After the Home Depot guy insisted on helping me pull out the pieces, I picked up a board, held it level to my eye and said, “This board is more crooked than a mountain road! Is that the best one in the pile? Look! It’s full of knots!” Then he backed off and decided that, despite being female, perhaps I had some credibility after all.
I digress…
Triumphant, I got the shipment home, assembled my saw horses and started measuring and cutting the new boards with a little Led Zep on. I got the old man to help with this task of course, because I needed someone to catch the boards (you didn’t actually think I’d let him near the saw, did you?)
Oh, and my new saw has a laser guide on it. SO cool. Lasers.
Now on to the fun part. Project raised flower bed assembly: begin!
I started assembling my boxes with a copious amount of well measured and aligned cedar decking screws. It took me the entire afternoon to assemble just one box. Dear god this is going to take a while!
With the first box complete, I then had the pleasure of destroying one of the picket fences in our front yard and using the pickets as stakes to sink my first box into the ground. How’s that for reduce and reuse? So fun! DESTRUCTION!!
Our landlords agreed with us wholeheartedly- the last tennant surrounded everything in the yard with little wooden fences. WTF? As she put it, “He’s so stooopid. What is this? Snow white and the seven dwarves??”
So now I’ve opened the yard up, reused a bunch of wood and lumber, and built my first tidy little box for planting this spring.
I’m going to have to get more Angus-help or I’ll never be done.
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Their beds are so comfortable.
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