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!
update: Guy with a truck – a very large truck….
…Now to get them unloaded…. clearly I didn’t think this totally through…
