We’ve been pretty busy cleaning up the homestead lately.  One of the things about buying large amounts of land is the frequent trash piles you find from before people used a trash service or the city dump.

In our case, we’ve got a few dilapidated outbuildings and piles of construction materials that we have been utilizing to rebuild other structures.

So far, my husband has built a pretty sweet grill out of cinderblock to hold the cooktop he and his dad welded a few years ago.  He’s working on a smokehouse now.  I’m hoping to get him to guest-post on his construction methods.  He’s a fairly talented handyman, and had prior experience in home construction before he got into the technology field.

Meanwhile, I’m over here making my ghetto bench for the porch.

I hope to paint the blocks one day, and replace that rotting landscaping timber with wider planks, but let’s be honest:

It was free, and I had no regrets.  It sits just fine.

For this configuration, you’ll just need 6 cinderblocks as shown above, and an 8 foot  landscaping timber sawed into two four-foot lengths.  I stacked a third block onto each pair and my girls slid the timbers in.

“Easy-peasy, rice-and-cheesey.”