Sunday, October 14, 2012

OMG! 5 cent cement blocks!

Got the weekly email from ReStore on Friday… Concrete blocks – 5 cents!  I’m there… NO they won’t sell them to me Friday night.  Saturday morning… thunderstorm and pouring rain.  Didn’t matter – off I go.   Just what I wanted – 4 x 8 x 16 – brand new and with a design on the one side.  Yep..  I’ll take them all.  Guy counts them and brings it to the register.  I get in line to check out.  $30 some – not so bad.  Bring one home with me.  Figure out how many there are….  OMG – 675!! 

OK…  to justify it..  one raised bed 20 feet long like I have – 2 blocks wide – 3 blocks high – uses 108 blocks…  Actually I think it won’t take me long to use them.  4 blueberry bushes need protection from the dogs and me walking on them…  another 40.  Front yard wall I’ve been thinking about since I liked the fence so much that I put up for Olivia (it keeps the other dogs in if I want to sit out front and I don’t have to worry about them chasing rabbits – oh and was really cool when the puppies came to visit and we could sit out front and let them loose.)   hhmmm….  150 blocks first layer times 3 high is 450 blocks for a raised bed so I can plant something …  ok..  I’m almost out of blocks.

NOW…  to get them here…. just a small detail!

 

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update:  Guy with a truck – a very large truck…. 

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…Now to get them unloaded….  clearly I didn’t think this totally through…