Dear MOTHER
“When you’re 9 years old, a playhouse made of recycled lumber can become a castle, fort, or anything else you can imagine.”
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Garden Bed Creativity
We recently decided to build raised garden beds. We didn’t know what we should use to raise the beds, so we came up with the idea of using plastic window wells that we purchased at a local building supply store. We put ¾-inch green-treated plywood on top of the window wells, and then we drilled ½-inch holes through the plywood for drainage. We placed our planters on top of the plywood, and then we added ¾ inch of stones inside the planters and filled the whole thing with dirt. We’re looking forward to spring, when we won’t have to bend down to do our gardening!
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Kurt and Lisa Van Weele
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A Place for Imagination
Having been in the construction business, I’ve accumulated used plywood, 2x4s, and other miscellaneous wood. One day, my 9-year-old great-grandson, Aiden, asked me if we could build a
