Garden experiment

 Since our spinach seems to drown more than it grows, we're going to try an experiment this year. This will also include the scallions. They didn't grow last year, either. First, you need an old scrap pallet and some scrap lumber for legs.

 You knock the last board off each end of the pallet and attach the legs and something for the end of the box.

 Then add something for extra support in between the slats. Heather had some wire left over from the rabbit cages, so we used that. I stapled it down to keep it in place.

 Add sides, also from scraps I had around. These happen to be 5 1/2 inches tall. Then put in some landscape fabric to keep the dirt in. That was the most expensive part of this elevated bed. It was $8 at Tractor Supply, but I needed it for something else too, so it will all be used.

Then just add dirt. This one held 240 lbs. to fill it to the top - 6 bags of topsoil. They were on sale today at Tractor Supply for $1 per bag. Now we will see if the veggies grow better.

Redneck Snow Plow

 OK, it was just an idea until it started to snow AGAIN. We got another 10" last night. I'm starting to think I'm back in New York.

 I threw it together this morning with what pieces of scrap lumber I had sitting in the shed and clamped it to the front rack of the 4 -wheeler.

It doesn't lift or pivot, but it sure beats shoveling all this by hand. Now when they plow the road, we can get out.