We were busy bees this weekend. And as some of you noticed in yesterday’s post, in the picture where John was playing the role of the deck, we had already started to clear out the liriope/weeds/bushes that were going on in our future-deck spot.
You might remember that we started with this:
The first step was to call Miss Utility to make sure digging things up and building a deck wouldn’t endanger ourselves (or our house) by potentially hitting an electrical line or a water pipe or any other booby trap that might be lurking below the dirt. Thankfully we got the all clear. So we transplanted that big bush (seen above hugging the side of the house) to a spot in desperate need of some greenery: the left side of our house. It looks kinda lonely by itself, but right now we’re filing this under “it’s better than nothing.” Someday we’ll get him a line of friends (the same bushes – called Gold Dust- grow along the bedroom addition and look great, so we have high hopes that this spot works for them too).
Next up, digging up liriope. Our favorite thing! Not. But at least we had our favorite thing to cheer us on: Burger. Here he is giving the “glad I’m not the one who has to dig up all that liriope” look.
I think it took a little over an hour of digging (with Clara inside napping with her monitor on blast by the door) for the space to go from this…
…to this.
We dumped the dug-up monkey grass on our side yard in hopes that some of it will survive and fill in (that stuff is crazy-hardy). Also, under the balcony are pallets that we’ll get rid of when we demo that thing out.
Unfortunately the clearing task didn’t end there. We also had to take care of this weird assortment of bricks, weeds, and lawn ornaments that we lovingly call “the AC shrine.”
We can’t quite figure out what its purpose was – besides maybe putting some leftover bricks to use. They were arranged kind of like some permanent four-square game, with the stone pagoda in the middle. It earned the name “the AC shrine” because between the mini-temple and unusual layout we decided it must have some greater, cosmic meaning while being located right in front of – you guessed it – the AC.
In digging it up we didn’t find sacrificial animal bones, but we did discover that the bricks were laid two levels deep. Awesome. It gave us flashbacks of this and this. Yes, we’ve done our fair share of brick-digging-up around here.
Around 160 bricks later, we had everything dug up. Oh yeah, don’t mind the pile of paver stones in the background. Those were leftovers from the patio project. Guess now you know where we’ve been hiding them for the past 12 months. But we’ve got plans for them someday…
Several sweat-inducing wheelbarrow loads later, to take them to our brick stockpile next to our carport – future use still unknown (but possibly for when we convert the carport into a garage), the area was officially clear. Well, clear of bricks at least.
A bit more digging later, and it was also mostly clear of weeds.
We still have to move our paver collection, demo the existing balcony, and get rid of the pallets it’s shielding – but the area is much more ready for a deck than it was last weekend.
Now we just have to:
- continue weighing the pros and cons of different decking materials (we’ll share a lot more on that when we make a final decision)
- get some estimates for our materials
- get that dang permit thing taken care of
Oh yes, and then we have to actually:
- build a deck
Haha. You know we’ll keep you posted! Oh and speaking of keeping you posted, we called our power company to make sure those electrical meters on the side of the house won’t sabotage our deck plans (we have heard in some places they have to be at a certain height so people reading them don’t have to crouch – which would mean no deck) but thankfully our meter readers are happy to crouch, so there’s no issue with them! Wahoo! One of them is actually not active anymore (the extra low one) and the other one will be about 2.5′ above the bottom of the deck (and since they do most of their reading remotely now, it just needs to be accessed to be serviced, which they say is no problem at that height). Whew. And we’ll paint it to blend in like we did at our first house.
Have you guys been clearing things or digging up any areas around the house? Did you find anything cool while digging? We once found an old milk bottle cap at our first house…
… and actually hung it up on our gallery wall to commemorate it.
Someone tell me they found a box full of money or gold bars or something. Or a dinosaur bone.
Psst- In one of our quickest giveaways in history, we hit 10,000 entries within six hours of posting it, so we’ve already announced this week’s winner here.
Jenny says
Might I suggest trex decking? Super good and long lasting
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, we’re definitely weighing the pros and cons of that with other options as well!
xo,
s
Patti says
I bought a house last year in a bit of a transitional neighborhood, that has had some sketchy past but is seeing a lot of development in the past couple years. A month or so after moving in, while digging up weeds in my backyard last year, I found four bullets! Yes, bullets. Apparently, my house has a rather colorful history of being inhabited by likely drug dealers before I moved in. Fun! (Luckily, a developer had flipped it, so I bought from them, and never had to interact with said drug dealers…)
I actually really wanted to mount them inside a shadowbox as an homage to my home’s history, but a friend who know more about these things than I do said that was probably a bad idea since they weren’t used and had started to corrode, potentially exposing the gun powder. Maybe one day I’ll find something interesting and NOT explosive, like a cool old milk jug cap :)
YoungHouseLove says
Eeks! Such a crazy find! Glad you learned why not to frame them- never would have thought of that!
xo,
s
Kim says
Our daughter found an Indian head penny from 1899. She was at the perfect age where that was fascinating to her, and it was (is) exactly 100 years older than she is.
We have a ton of brick from our rancher, too, laid in weird places. We recently got even more when we did an addition last year. We gave some to some friends who used them for a walkway. We don’t know what to do with the rest of them. What are your plans for all those bricks? Our kids build forts with them, which is cool, but I am tired of them! Seriously, we have hundreds!
YoungHouseLove says
What an awesome find! As for those bricks, we’re thinking of using them when we convert the carport into a garage (apparently it’s hard to find matching brick so we’re lucky to have some extra)!
xo,
s
Bryanna says
Our neighbourhood was once a *shudder* dumping ground for the local pharmaceutical company (we had no idea when we purchased our house unfortunately, it’s not well known news), people in my neighbourhood are constantly digging up really old medicine bottles and broken pieces of dishes and such. My neighbour has dug up a whole (huge) Bleach brown glass bottle! It’s pretty neat. My neighbour found an old silver quarter while gardening. Last year we had an ice storm and some trees in the hood were uprooted, it was like treasure was uneartherd. BEAUTIFUL old glass bottles, fully intact unearthed! I haven’t personally found anything too exciting in my yard, just large chunks of plates/bowls and broken glass bottles.
YoungHouseLove says
Wow- it’s amazing those glass bottles were whole and not all broken!
xo,
s
Alina says
When we were doing kitchen renos, and expanding the wall by a little bit, we found a door! Then we kept going, and it looked like the former owners had covered up a whole linen closet to make our walk in kitchen! It was pretty crazy!
YoungHouseLove says
That’s amazing!
xo,
s
Katie says
I don’t know if it counts since he didn’t dig it up, but my dad got a jar of old buttons from an estate auction that had a 1898 Morgan silver dollar in the bottom of it last weekend. The coin is worth $30 to $50, and the jar was free for helping a friend carry stuff out to the car. Pretty nice trade-off!
YoungHouseLove says
Wow- that’s awesome!
xo,
s
Jeanne G. says
We found a white-gold ladies wedding ring in the flowerbed at the house I lived in when I was a little girl. I was the only one who it fit, so I wore it on my right hand until my fingers got too big. I wanted it to be my wedding ring! I still have it in my jewelry box, it actually fits my left ring finger but by the time I was ready to get married wearing someone else’s wedding ring creeped me out.
YoungHouseLove says
Such a cool find!
xo,
s
zoe says
I actually found a silver spoon when I cleared my previous woodland garden of brush. Treasure!
YoungHouseLove says
Total treasure!
xo,
s
Anne says
Your new deck area is looking good. Can’t wait to see the end product and what you decide to use. You two are an inspiration to me to get things done.
Are your electric lines overhead? Miss Utility is supposed to spray paint where the lines are if they are underground. If your lines are not overhead, you should have paint or flags on the ground coming out from the utility box.
Or were your pictures just taken before Miss Utility came out?
YoungHouseLove says
Yes, ours are overhead, so they come in from above! No spraying on the ground at all (they came out, but everything was from above or feeding into the house from other sides of the house (ex: water line goes through front yard).
xo,
s
Cecily B says
I’m curious about your decking decisions. We’re just a bit to the South of you here in North Carolina. Five years ago my husband and I build a 16×20 ground level deck in our yard on concrete pier blocks. We love the deck, the outdoor dining space it provides, and the lounging areas… however we wish we had not used traditional “deck boards”.
Since building the deck, we’ve learned that professional builders do not use “deck boards” because they are thinner and tend to split, splinter and warp – as ours are doing now. We didn’t have the budget for Trex or other synthetic-type wood.
Now we’re contemplating having to rip up and replace the splintering warping decking boards, but when we do, it will be with 2×6 pressure treated lumber as the pros do. Synthetic wood is still out of our budget…
Shani says
No pet bones? that shrine totally looked like some of the things we put over our many generations of buried cats, back at my parents’ home.
YoungHouseLove says
That’s what I was worried about!
xo,
s
kathy says
At our parents house when they demoed the back porch they actually found an old glass case from the 1800s with some notes inside (old southern plantation home)! Unfortunately once we opened the box the paper started disintegrating into small pieces. We kept it though! The best thing we’ve found in our yard digging was a hammer and an old toilet seat haha
YoungHouseLove says
So funny! Sad the paper disintegrated!
xo,
s
Jennifer says
We had an old bottle of rum from the 70’s clunk down on us when we ripped out the ceiling in the basement! We couldn’t figure out if the then teenagers of the home owner were sneaking drinks, or if the Mommy at the time had a little secret?!
carley says
Wow! The area looks so much wider now that it’s cleared out. We have a ton of brick to dig up this summer…a “patio” that wasn’t installed properly. We’ve already dug up a brick pathway that goes from our front yard to the backyard. Not fun!
Ty Lee says
My house is still being constructed, but I drive out to the lot weekly to see the progress (or lack thereof), so the only digging so far has been the digging of the foundation. The only treasure I’ve found is a dirty used diaper that someone littered onto my lot! Disgusting! And who does that?! There was also a banana peel, but at least that’s biodegradable, but a DIAPER? Come on! And that HAS to be an HOA violation! (Also, I use cloth dipes, so for some reason I’m especially irked by the used ‘sposey on my lot!)
Plus, that just seems like a big “F you!” to the environment, which I don’t understand. I mean, I LIKE the Earth; it’s where I keep all my stuff. Let’s try to keep it clean, people! /stepping off soapbox now
YoungHouseLove says
No way, a diaper? So random. Glad you found it before it was buried in your future yard for some future generation to find someday- haha.
xo,
s
andrea H. says
we found matching michigan license plates from 1967 in our backyard when digging to put our playset in. husband wants to sell them (apparently car guys want matching front and back license plates for their vintage cars) but I like them too much to get rid of!
YoungHouseLove says
We love hearing about all the finds you guys! Thanks for sharing!
xo,
s
Rhianna Riggs says
My house was built in 1911. Over the last three years I’ve lived there, I’ve found eye glasses, old pottery and glass, rusty nails, doll parts, toys, etc. The icing on the cake is when my boyfriend dug up a headstone (yes, a headstone)! next to the porch about a month ago. Needless to say, we’ve stopped digging and are currently researching the name on the headstone. Luckily we haven’t had any ‘poltergeist’ experiences or else I may have to consider moving!
Sherri says
You reminded me of a funny story when you said you didn’t find any sacrificial animal bones while digging up the AC Shrine. When my parent’s bought their first house (the house I grew up in), in addition to the weird 7 foot tall mural on the living room wall of the dude from the Stairway to Heaven album artwork (old guy with the lantern), and the empty ice chest buried under a rock garden on the side yard, there were LOTS of cow skulls adorning the shed out back and we found more as the years went by when burying pets who had passed on…You never know what you will find from previous owners!
YoungHouseLove says
It’s so true!
xo,
s
Lindsey says
We actually just recently dug up our front garden to plant some nicer plants. Anyway, in the process, we ran across a really large rock… er.. or shall I say 4 ft by 4ft wide concrete slab! The builders had buried it under the flower bed or something..long with a circular saw blade and a giant hammer…. I blogged about it at http://www.portugalponderings.blogspot.com/2012/05/our-landscaping-adventure.html
We had the builder come over and jackhammer it up (since our house is still under warranty). You can see a picture of the rubble on the blog.. it was CRAZY!!
YoungHouseLove says
So glad you caught that since it’s still under warranty!
xo,
s
Dizee says
I love how you make it all look so easy!!! Great job.
My husband dug up the old “patio” in our back yard. Turned out to be 190 cinder blocks….. Fantastic!
Ali says
In the house I grew up in, we found a stash of old newspapers in a basement ceiling. At first we thought they were just random papers, but on closer inspection we discovered that they were newspapers specific to days of major historical events over the last 100 years: elections, wars, moon landing, etc. So now whenever something major happens, we buy an extra copy of the paper and add it to the collection for the next owners to find one day.
YoungHouseLove says
That’s awesome!!
xo,
s
Karen F says
wow, what an amazing find!
John says
You wont need footings, just span the 8′ with 2x joists like the existing deck. Looks like the joists will clear the foundation vents from the picture. Did find a piece of blue and white pottery and a metal claw from a plow or grader, use to be an old farm house nearby.
YoungHouseLove says
Thanks John! Just need to find out if the county is cool with that! Apparently they have lots of must-do things that don’t always make it easy!
xo,
s
jeannette says
i’m getting ahead of yourself, please indulge me. i’ve seen a lot of people make fugly little outdoor spaces into cozy attractive “apero terraces” — as the people who carved one out of a 15th century french outhouse call theirs.
furnishing it like a living room is one way to make it rock. emily henderson did it the other day with a patio, and an outdoor rug i didn’t love. but the plastic rug source she used is faboo, and they have a wide selection of outdoor hose-able (?) carpets. it defines the space, makes it cozy. here’s the link. henderson used a pink one (no love).
http://fabhabitat.com/index.php/world-collection/fab/size/71-x-106.html
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, once the deck is actually accomplished I can’t wait to decorate it! Haha.
xo,
s
Stacy says
I think I’d rather dig up bricks and oddly placed yard art then what we’ve dug up over time. Booze bottles, a entire weight set that was supposed to go to a weight bench, countless car parts, ect. With all the crap that was buried in our yard, it’s hard to believe that at one time our house was a “model” home.
You guys have certainly had to deal with inspections and permits before ( I’m assuming permits were pulled for your kitchen renovation) so I’m curious about the fear (?) with getting a permit for this new deck.
I don’t know if you’re really fearful or not, but since everytime you mention getting a permit for the new deck, it
never comes out in your usual It’s-Not-Big-Deal-type attitude, I’m curious what the problem is. Do you live in a town where building inspectors like to kick innocent people in butt just because they can?
We had a plumber inspector like that. One would just look at him the wrong way and he’d shut down the entire job just because he could. His replacement isn’t much better, he just leaves his bully hat hung until it needs to come out.
If it were me, I’d be worried about the tax bill that followed the the build of the new deck, but I think that just comes from where I live. We have to pay for a permit to not only build stuff, but we also have to pull a permit to demo stuff. Ugh! In the case of getting a permit to demo stuff, that’s the town’s way of getting as much money as it can as the following year they cannot tack on whatever was demo’d to our tax bill.
YoungHouseLove says
We just hear the county is particularly tough on decks for some reason and have heard horror stories of someone having to unbuild the entire thing since they didn’t use “approved screws” – haha. They also do two inspections for the deck, so it just seems heavy duty I guess! It’s not as much fear as knowing we have a lot of hoops to jump though, ya know? But we’re all for keeping things safe, so it’s nice to have some checking going on, just sort of funny for a small deck just a few feet off the ground. Haha.
xo,
s
Linda says
I think a lot of municipalities found issues with either shoddy contractors or, ah, less than competent/careful DIYers, putting up decks and balconies over the last few decades that simply were not built to code, any code, and led to a lot of problems as they aged. We had some issues in the Chicago area with balconies collapsing – a combination, IMO, of cheap construction and lack of proper inspection.
Sure, it can be a pain wondering what, and why, an inspector is checking – but it just could save your life.
YoungHouseLove says
Amen! Totally worth all the hoops we have to jump through to keep people safe!
xo,
s
Tracey says
We spent all day Sunday taking care of our yard. I only got half of it weeded. ;( It’s a nightmare to care of, but looks so nice when it’s all cleaned up!
As far as found treasures go… Our yard is crazy thanks to the guy that lived here prior to us. He shored up the front yard with concrete and the back is three levels retained by (decaying) railroad ties. He must have used whatever fill dirt he could get his hands on, because one of our dogs has dug up a watch, a fork, a pen, a compass and random other bits of nails, glass (not sharp thankfully) and bottle caps. It’s a veritable treasure trove, I tell ya! ;D
On a much cooler note… When my parents built their house in 1984 we all spent months digging in the ground as it was being torn up and graded and we found lots of arrowheads and broken pipes. My mom mounted and framed all the arrowheads and pipes we found! We think that area was a Native American settlement. Pretty neat!
YoungHouseLove says
So fun!
xo
s
Jacque says
We had some drainage porblems at our house and so we decided to put in a french drain off our back patio. We found the sewer overflow. (I’m pretty sure it has a real name but my understanding is that if things get backed up in the house it will overflow outside) The previous owner must not have liked the look of it so he burried it! We also found wood where there used to be a flower bed in a nice rectagle shape. Guess the previous owner didn’t want one so he buried it too!
YoungHouseLove says
So funny!
xo
s
heyruthie says
i live in the DC area, and once my grandmother and I found an exquisite quartz arrow head in her backyard in College Park.
YoungHouseLove says
So pretty!
xo,
s
Amanda says
I haven’t found anything all that great, but my great grandmother had a ruby ring that she wore every day, and she tended to lose it a lot. One time, she had been gardening and lost it, and a few months later, she pulled up a carrot wearing the ring! For some reason, that ring always came back to her :-)
YoungHouseLove says
That’s hilarious!
xo,
s
Sarah says
we found some old, old scissors while digging in our yard (1870’s house) also found an antique toy car and some very old buttons!
donna in TX says
When we lived in Seattle, we found an old logging chain buried in our front yard. Some of the houses in that neighborhood were built in the 50’s so it had to be at least that old.
Kerry says
My cousin renovated the home of a depression-era woman who kid money throughout her house. Her children cleared all of her furniture and belongings out and were confident that they had found all of her hidden stashes. But- when my cousin replaced a shower and opened up a wall, he found $5,000 wrapped in aluminum foil and hanging by a wire from a water pipe!! Unbelievable!!
YoungHouseLove says
Wow- that’s amazing!!
xo,
s
Jennifer says
My fiance and I moved into our first house a little over a year ago. Last summer when we were putting a deck in our backyard we found 22 huge patio stones buried under the grass throughout the whole yard!
YoungHouseLove says
No way! I love hearing about all the buried stuff you guys have uncovered!
xo,
s
Kim says
Lindsey,
What age is your house? That could be an old septic tank. Our ‘hood has them, but people usually don’t know that’s the concrete thing they’ve run into.
Megan says
My favorite finds have been things like antique marbles. But bricks aren’t all bad. We sold some non-antique bricks we had sitting around for around $1 apiece on CL quite easily.
YoungHouseLove says
Always another option if we don’t reuse them! Thanks for the tip!
xo,
s
Rachel@hammeringourwayhome says
UM, we had a “fun” find digging up our basement…. A BONE. One that our Dr friend couldn’t confirm as animal…
http://hammeringourwayhome.com/post/17924867417/pagingdrg
It was super creepy. Especially because of the ancient burial ground rumors near by.
YoungHouseLove says
No way!
xo,
s
Beth says
Oh wow, the digging reminds me of my yard. I’ve lived in my home my entire life (bought it from my mom) and when we cleaned out a section of our yard we found tons of things. Balls, old milk bottles, old soda cans, old cleaning cans like Pledge and tons of Frisbees !!! So nuts ! I’ve kept the milk bottles but nothing else. Kind of never know what you will find. My mom said that place we cleaned out used to be only woods, so she believes the items were there long before she was too ! Nuts !
Ashley says
Once, many (many) moons ago, I found an old china doll head while digging in my parents’ garden. We had just dug a huge vegetable garden way on the backyard so it was pretty certain that that area of land hadn’t been touched for a long time. I was so proud and thought it was so awesome that I brought it into my 6th grade class for show and tell- and promptly lost it in that classroom. Sadness!
YoungHouseLove says
Oh no!
xo,
s
Angela R. says
We completely gutted our 100 yr. old second story when we moved in. We found a secret door to an attic space (yay for storage!), some beautiful glass bottles, and the grossest thing was some playboy magazines from the 60’s. They were stashed up in the attic space- we know the family that grew up here, we thought it might be funny to ask if they wanted to have them back…
Emily says
There was a stack of playboys in my attic when I moved in too! I asked the previous owner if her husband wanted them back and she said he was in so much trouble because he mentioned leaving them and said it would be funny and she told him not to! So I might have gotten him in trouble.
alex says
They are a bit gross, but my dad recently was given a huge box of vintage playboys from the early 60’s and almost every issue to the early 80’s and if they are in good condition, they are quite valuable….and from a girls persepctive I think sone of the covers are kinda of tasteful and pretty….but I like weird vintage stuff like that. Ha.
Wendy says
My uncle found a petrified ball of dino dung. It is roundish and weighs about 8-10 lbs. He actually had it tested and confirmed, and now uses it as a door stop.
YoungHouseLove says
That is hilarious and amazing, all at the same time.
xo,
s
Sara V says
Maybe you’ve already thought of this, but I’ve seen tons of cool pallet projects on pinterest. There are some neat vertical planter ones, and some for the inside the house too (if you’re not worried about chemicals).
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, love those ideas! We used some to build a compost bin, but aren’t sure we want to use them all or craigslist them for someone has a better idea for them! We’ll have to see where we end up.
xo,
s
tae says
I am so excited about this deck project! You have the best ideas! Could you do a behind-the-scenes post about how you came up with this idea and the kind of research that you did before deciding to move forward with it? I feel like sometimes the thing that stops me from pursuing big projects like this is just not being sure where to start!
Thank you!
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, we’ll be posting all about our research as we go! We haven’t figured out how to built it or even settled on what materials we’ll be using! We just take things on step at a time (so far all we’ve done is called Miss Utility, called our power company about the meter boxes on the house, and cleared the area). Will keep you posted!
xo,
s
Christie Ann Bieber says
We used TigerWood for our deck last year, with clear glass ballusters and LOVE it!http://www.tigerwooddecking.com/ It has hidden fasteners too which is really nice. No hot little nail or screw heads to burn your feet or snag something.
YoungHouseLove says
Wow- that’s gorgeous!
xo,
s
Kim W Rily says
We found what I think was the remnants of a little hand held garden trowel, but it looked like three shriveled fingers of a monkey paw. That thing freaked me out. At first I thought I’d found a piece of an old pet. Thankfully, not.
YoungHouseLove says
Oh man, that would scare me too!
xo,
s
Tara says
I’ve never found anything in my yard (our house is pretty new, so we’d probably only find weeds!) but while on vacation a few years ago, my brother dropped something under our hotel room bed, bent down to pick it up and came back up with a necklace from Tiffany! I felt a little guilty about taking it home with us, but there was no way to know what previous guest it belonged to. Now I wear it all the time!
Robyn says
My grandparents plowed up a field and it turned out to be an old old old Indian burial ground. Bones, artifacts, etc.
YoungHouseLove says
Love all the stories everyone! Thanks for sharing!
xo,
s
Stacey says
Well, after my husband convinced me to build a patio instead of a deck this year (http://hodoeporicon.blogspot.com/2012/04/before.html), we’re starting to dig and level space for the patio in the backyard. We found some old plastic clothespins from when my grandmother had a clothesline over the area. That was kinda cool. :)
Jennifer says
Whew! I’m so glad your electric company is not opposed to crouching. I kept thinking the whole time I wrote that that I really hope they’re not as backwards as DC since that space NEEDS this deck! I tend to be called the “Debbie Downer” around here (though I prefer to be known as a realist!)because I handle the very difficult and sticky logistical jobs in our office and have the tough job of thinking about everything that could go wrong. It’s so refreshing to see two people really caring about their own space and NOT being afraid to tackle the bigger things. And I think it’s a testament to see you going about doing things the right way! My fiance and I are both young architects and I can’t tell you the number of people that can’t be bothered to even contact their city or county for guidance or permitting on these types of things and then wonder why it will always come back to bite you in some fashion. Kudos to you both for knowing that you can be diy-ers but still need to take the same steps as licensed professionals. Can’t wait to see how this develops!
PS. If you have logistical code related questions regarding your deck (you probably won’t – haha) feel free to email and I’d be more then happy to help you out. Decks are slightly different in the past 2-3 years because of all of the accidents happening with people building them and their rails incorrectly. Luckily the layout of your space should mitigate most of those issues. :)
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Jennifer! You’re so sweet!
xo,
s
Stacey says
Also, I work in history museums and do a lot of archaeology programs with school kids. This kind of thing is a really fun way to teach kids about the past and how archaeology is really more about sifting through previous generations’ trash than treasure hunting like Indiana Jones. :)
YoungHouseLove says
Fun!
xo
s
Corey says
I cant wait to see the deck guys! I noticed you talk about the pallets in this post and in the post about the “dreaded” basement….if you ever get just a spare second we would be extremely honored if you could check out what we did with our spare pallets :) http://loveuslife.com/?p=94
YoungHouseLove says
It’s adorable!!! Such a cute idea!
xo,
s
linda says
not happy that you didn’t open up a second post to enable others to enter, too. i was busy with work and didn’t get a chance to check for your second post until later in the afternoon… i’ll bet that was the case with a lot of west coast folks….
YoungHouseLove says
So sorry Linda! We have legal giveaway rules that we have to uphold just to keep things fair (when we say the contest will close after 10,000 entries, which we have said for all contests over the last 5+ months, we have to uphold that – which we have done probably 10 times or so). We have severe issues with the site slowing down or crashing with over 10,000 comments (even if they’re spread across two posts, it would still be a large load on our blog to have all those comments flying in within a 24 hour period – so it’s a bandwith issue). Hope you understand!
xo,
s