I was distracted from my tat post by this..isn't that cool? I have a seat in the back made out of two cement blocks and an old board I found out there when I needed a seat one day. But, I never thought of actually building a seat with those materials. Man, this is so cute and so easy! Just call the lumber yard and tell them how long you want the wood cut. (They deliver here and I have a charge account.) I'd want all the horizontal blocks cemented together though. If that top one ever fell, it could hurt someone. (Kids do crazy shit.) But, I love this idea and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who has stray cement blocks here and there. Who knows why? Because I can't stand throwing out potential crap I might potentially need. OMG, I am a hoarder! But, GD it, I am an organized hoarder. And hoarding building materials and antiques isn't so bad. Is it? I don't do milk jugs or egg cartons. Hell, no one needs more than a dozen of those.
PS, I think I'd leave the posts longer. You could use them as side tables. Plus it would make it even sturdier. You could even get craftier and make cushions for it. I hate sewing though.
Oh, man, another idea would be to use these blocks as a base and build some crazy sculpture around it in cement.
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Now that is cool!!!! If I am able to stay in this house, I would very seriously consider making at least one of those. I wonder how it would look in white or robin's egg blue in my yard.
Christina
I was thinking the same colors! I think it would be stunning. If you don't have kids around, you wouldn't have to worry about anchoring it either. Go for it!
I think you would still have to anchor that back some kind of way. If you leaned back on it, it would fall back.
At 4:10 p.m., it was 100 degrees on my deck. I hate summer.
Jane, I do feel your pain. I got in my car to go check the schedule at work about an hour and a half ago. The windows were down, and the moon roof was cracked open. It was 107. By the time I got down the hill, it had cooled to 101. It has been unusually hot this year. Starting in June, even. Normally we only have a day or two of 100, and that is usually in August.
I tried to pull some tansy and ragweed at about 11 this morning. Nope, nope, and nope. Too hot by that time. I called it a day and came inside to snack, drink lots of liquids,and ruminate on life while watching the LOTR trilogy on TNT. Not a good day to do anything else, here.
The heat has made it a great time to go to the beach, though. I have taken off for Seaside three times so far this summer. It has been so beautiful, there. I have needed a place to hide out and pretend like the rest of my life doesn't exist. The last time I went was the best of all. It was cooler (70's ),and so comfortable lying in the sun. I laid out there until I was getting way too much sand blown in my face. The water was lukewarm up halfway to my knees. Deeper than that, it got cool. Wonderful to wade in, but I think it must be bad for marine life. I think we have a die -off of starfish going on close to shore, and I found tiny sand dollars. I hope the environment isn't totally screwed.
Christina
Hi from rainy south calif. Poured yesterday. I don't own a raincoat, umbrella, hoodie or anything but I was out and about anyway. Some guy came and held an umbrella for me. Too late.
Today it was hot and muggy but it's raining now and has been for a few hours. Odd indeed for JULY.
LOVE the bench. Yes, yes, and more yes. Great idea and the colors are great but almost any would be good. Wonderful idea.
Man I hate the heat too. I can not take it anymore. I only garden when it's raining. I love rain and gardening in it. As long as it isn't, you know, pouring. I'm reading your comments, reading the news and realizing this Earth IS screwed up. Something has changed and not for the better. Is it global warming? Loss of bees or some other creature? Pesticides? The killing of Rain Forest? The ozone shit? I don't know, but, it IS happening.
Oh and if you do make that bench and want to anchor it. Plain old cement is like, 5 bucks for a huge bag. I do NOT do all that fucking prep shit or anything the experts recommend. If I just wanted to anchor a few blocks, I'd just dump a few cups of it into a bowl I hated and pour water in and stir it with a fork I hated. If it looked to thin, add more cement. If it's lumpy? So fucking what? Fuck all that fussy wussy shit. My cement bird baths are still fine and that's how I do it. If you tape the bag shut and keep it somewhere dry, it lasts for years.
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