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Continuing on the theme of meeting furniture needs with stuff left over from the old kitchen, I bring you... ... Laundry Table:

Having such limited space, I've been interested in vertical gardening for a while. This weekend, I finished the planters for my first go at it. I took an old 10' gutter that came down in The Big Project of 2014, and some short lengths left over from a recent replacement, and mounted them all to two 9'-long boards left over from the kitchen demo last year. Then I put them up on the new fence. Lettuce will go in the top one (new materials) and succulents will go in the bottom one (old gutter) -- I'm not putting food in the bottom one because there is old roofer's tar in it. Very interested to see how it goes! In other vegetable garden news, I have held off on planting because I made a large pile of dirt digging the hole for the brick path that I need to deal with first. I am going to use it to level the yard a bit, but I can't do that until the rain stops long enough for me to do the work & then spread more mulch on top to prevent muddy paw prints. Maybe this ...

Forgot to post this last week. The sun came out, so I finally got to put in the brick path! Dug a big hole: Put sand in the hole to give the bricks a bed to settle into: Put bricks in the hole: Ta-da!