Mail Box

The weather was absolutely gorgeous today......60 plus degrees and breezy with the sun in and out of the clouds.   We couldn't bear to stay inside so we decided to do an outside project while we had nice weather.   I've had a new mailbox ready to be installed since before we moved here and today seemed like a perfect day to install it.

 It was a little tough using the post hole digger since we had to get thru a layer of hard packed gravel and then some tough clay soil.   Finally we had dug down deep enough to sink the 4"x4" wooden post and then we slipped the PVC post over the wood.  We packed cement around the post and watered it in.  Joel needed to use his Sawzall to saw thru the double metal post that the old mailbox had been mounted onto.   One slight problem, we needed to plug in the saw......way out in front of the house.

Ha!   We solved that by running 5 different construction extension cords from the plug in the front porch.   One way or another, we were going to get this job finished.   While we were replacing the mailbox, a neighbor put-putted by on his tractor.  He just smiled and waved.   I have no idea where he was going but I heard the tractor traveling down the road for quite a while after he passed by us.

Now this is a large, country mailbox!   We get the local paper delivered 3 times a week and it goes in the mailbox along with our regular mail.   This baby can hold all but the largest of packages, saving our mailman from making an extra trip down our lane to our back porch.

Ta-da!   I'm really happy with the way the new mailbox looks next to the lane coming into the farm.   Each time we paint, repair, add on to, or replace something on the farm, we make it more our own.   The new mailbox brings a little bit of our personality to the front of the house.   Next job, paint the shutters black!   

Soon, really soon,
Debbie