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Jared has been "laid off" the last two days of the work week for the past three weeks due to the effects of Covid-19 on production lines across the world. He has chosen to spend these long weekends working on my honey-do-lists and a few projects of his own. 

Today we tackled taking our old back fence from Park Drive that was damaged during a storm and turned it into a compost bin for me.

 

We started by cutting it in half....

And then we cut each half in half again. We had three good quarters and we didn't need to use the damaged quarter. 

We then took one of the many old 2x6s that were piled up in the woods of our property when we bought the place and ripped them making 2x3s. We then screwed those together to make corner posts. 

We used some of the 1xs that I had salvaged from the house when it was shipped here. They were used to hold the plastic sheeting on that protected the interior of each half. Anyway, Jared used those to stiffen up the bottoms where the planks had been cut in half. 

Then all that was left was to screw the three sides together. 

There was a lot of hoarded piles around this place when we bought it. One was a pile of bricks. I used a few of those to keep the bin from being directly on the ground  to hopefully prolong the life of my bin. They also promote air flow. 

I placed our bin between my two wildflower patches. I am so excited to have this done!

Until next time,

Becky