Monday, June 23, 2014

Project Monday - Rain gutters, rain barrel & clothesline poles!

A couple weeks ago I wrote about going to buy all the parts for our new clothesline poles.  We had asked they guys who built our house if they would set them up the same time they added rain gutters to our garage so we could set up our new rain barrel.

Well, today became "Project Monday!"  The projects included: the rain gutters, set up rain barrel, cement in the clothesline poles, and replace one freaky board on our deck...
Out of all the boards that make up our back deck, this one seemed to have a mind of its own.  You can see it was screwed into the supports below, but the "curl" was strong enough to pull out the screws.  And when the weather is warmer, it curls even more!  Then back down in the winter.  We placed a potted tomato plant next to it, but one of us...still managed to trip over it.  So now it is all fixed!

We didn't really need rain gutters on this side of the garage except for our wish to have a rain barrel for watering plants, and there didn't seem to be a better spot for it.

And here it is!  The wagon wheel was something we found in the weeds with all the other old farm equipment.

And here are the clothesline poles.  The don't look very tall but they are 6 feet high and 3 feet down in the ground.  The one that was left over at the old house was six feet high, so we went with that for this one.  And they are 22 feet apart..that's a set of sheets, pillowcases, and maybe more per line.  Jeff took the cross pieces to drill holes for the eye-hooks.  The coated wire will lace through the eye-hooks.  In this picture it looks a little crooked but they tipped them out just a smidge so when the tension pulls them in over the years, they will eventually be straight.
Can't wait to hang up a load of clothes!  Almost as fun as mowing the grass.  Really!

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