Finding and Using Wooden Crates

By Linne Dodds (Guest Post)

Some places also give away wood pallets.
The ground right by our front door always got Mushy when it rained. I tried heaping in more dirt & mixing the dirt with bits of this & that. No luck,still a puddle.
Then the little lightbulb went off in my brain. Try a Pallet .Spray paint it heavily to add some waterproofing. Yup. Every 5 or 6 years it does rot & needs to be replaced so I'm always on the look out for replacements.
We did make one mistake. We wanted to make a porch for a dog house .So we wanted to cut a pallet in 2. But this meant prying a board off the middle of the back. Mom's hand slipped & she asked why I was crying all over the wood.I said :"My nose is broken again." Oh well,it wasn't the first or last time that happened.
I iced it & I used the crow bar when I came back out. Be careful with those things!
The porch stayed out there longer than the dog did.