Sandbox

I'll start with the small upgrades to the house, or should I say to structures vital to the fun of the kids. 4 years ago I built the sandbox, 6x6 feet of 2x12s, a top edge and a lid. Didn't use pressure treated wood and just plopped the thing right into the dirt. Now the bottom of the sides are in bad, bad shape. I replaced one of them with the proper pressure treated wood this weekend, and I should probably do the 3 remaining sides later this summer.

And I designed a new lid to keep Piper and the other neighborhood cats out of the box.

Picture to follow this afternoon. Time to learn how to take "before" pictures. The "after" pictures look much better then...

The almost start

We bought our house in December last year. When we finally became the owners of the house, I really started coming up with plans for how I would like to make it work better, and also make it bigger as well. I know people made it work before, but 871 square feet of 2/1 is just not going to be enough for 2 boys growing up and me and Angela and Piper.

So I decided to document all our changes and improvements here. We havelready started with a lot of small things, so as I go along I'll try to cover those as well. I also made a list of all my plans, and maybe I'll post that one tomorrow. So for now, just a small picture of the house.