Day of the Sandbox

I decided to welcome myself to the 21st century web 2.0 and start a blog. I don't know how much time I'll have to actually work on this but I though what the heck, why not try.

In January 2004 my wife Melissa and I bought a house. It had been built in 1978, and to tell you the truth I don't think much had been done to update it at all. Melissa is an interior designer (she has a degree in it) and I am a tinkerer. So we've embarked on several projects to update our home. I thought THIS might be something worthy of a blog.

Several weeks ago we started a major landscaping project. More on this in another blog, but part of that project was to clear out an old garden in our back yard and start turning it into a sandbox for our two children.

We dug down about a foot until we hit clay and leveled everything out. Then we pretty much left it until today. Today we started focusing on this part of the puzzle. We have been trying to decide exactly what type of boarder we wanted to have for the sandbox. The ideas we had were pavers of some sort, bricks, landscaping ties and then Melissa in her briliance thought that we might use concrete.

So today we worked on building forms for pouring the cement. Melissa's plan is to do designs on the top of the cement you'll have to tune in later to see how that turns out!

The other thing we did today was destroying and replacing our mailbox...

That was just fun...