We took another month off in house land, our near death event of the almost falling chandelier made us decide to hold off. We also were trying to save some much needed money for our exterior remodel which we wanted to take on in the spring. So, I took the time to lust over some seed catalogs and make big plans to have a large organic garden come summer.
Since our backyard doesn't get much sunlight the most logical place to put our garden was in our front yard. While this may seem to weird to people not from Portlandia, this is actually pretty common in our town. In order to make it appear more pleasing we decided to building some raised beds. This would help for multiple reasons. First, we have a small hill on the corner of our yard that already needed a retaining wall. Second, prior to moving in our sewer line was replaced and they had destroyed all the grass and plantings in this area. Last, I am lazy and do not like to bend.
Josh went about creating some plans for the beds, when you're an underemployed architect it's amazing the time and energy your willing to commit to plans and elevations of small household projects. But, it was good for us to brush off the dust on our autocad and make it happen. After we both felt they looked good and provided enough space for our garden, we went ahead and ordered the wood from a friend. These were beautiful pieces of cedar, since it was rough cut they were true dimensions and weighed about 100 lbs each. He delivered them on a rainy day and filled our garage to the brim.
Now all we needed was a few days of no rain to get start....
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