Last week we kicked off summer by going on a field trip and starting a new project. Our field trip took us to Crump, TN to pick up some free hickory wood from a saw mill to fuel our new smoker grill. And by free wood, I mean the cost of two tanks of gas and a subway lunch.
Since we traveled all that way, I figured we should tour the local sights of Hardin County. Hardin County is home to Shiloh Civil War Battlefield, Shiloh Indian Mounds, historic downtown Main Street of Savannah and the Buford Pusser Museum. Who is Buford Pusser, you might wonder? Well, he's a legendary Tennessee sheriff, subject of several "Walking Tall" movies and one bad @$$. We tried to stop by and tour his home and museum, but arrived too early.
We thought we'd swing by after loading up our wood, but calamity had other plans for our afternoon! As it turns out, one of the wheel wells on our trailer was bent and with the weight our our free wood, it began rubbing against the tire and smoking after we started down the road with our load. Nathan tried to MacGyver our way out of this jam, but had no luck. So I had to walk 1/2 mile back to the saw mill for reinforcements.
Eventually they decided it was best to take the tire off (instead of the huge bundles of wood) and bend back the offensive fender.
Watch out for the fire ants.
By the time that problem was solved, we were too tired and sweaty to see any sights. Once we got home, we sweated some more unloading our wood. Look how nicely it's stacked up and ready for some smoker action.
Maybe some of it will become the foundation for my Southern Living dream raised bed garden.
In other projects, we decided to build a compost bin the help us enrich our terrible clay soil in hopes of the dream garden next summer. I saw one made of wooden pallets on another blog. So off we went to scrounge for pallets. A few screws...
And one chipped toenail later...
(I guess you shouldn't wear gold metallic Haviana's when you're wood working.)
Voila... A FREE Rustic Compost Bin
Isaiah 58:11
"The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail."
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