Garden Shed Update

It seems like any time we decide to take on a project, we think it's going to be easy. With the garden shed, easy-peasy right? Make a foundation of stone and gravel, level, put up shed. Done.

Hahahahahahaha.

First, we selected a location and got digging, as seen in my last post. Cary started digging a bit more and hit a weird spot of gravel. Then we realized that the electrical boxes are just to the left of the shed location. Ooops. We are those idiots that didn't "call before you dig".

Sure enough, electrical lines are running right under our desired location. Time to select a new location (also, so much for lines being 3 feet down, no we didn't break anything)...

Never have I missed our old house and its large yard more. With our current house and our smaller yard, the choices for a shed were limited. We ended up selecting a spot on the southern fence. This cuts off our access to a gate quite a bit and we had to remove a starwberry planter. :-( On the flip side, this particular gate is broken, so what are we losing?

Honestly, I'm not in love with the location, but I'm determined to make it work. Cary has been working hard, nearly every free minute he has been working on the foundation and has made A LOT of progress.

Now it just needs to be finished off, move tons of sprinkler stuff, and build the shed.

Easy-peasy right?

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