Saving Bench Legs
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One of my favorite garden resting spots in front of a small pond had its legs in mulch. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Saving Bench Legs
You would think that since I lost an earlier wooden bench to rotting legs I would have remembered to do something about this bench.
I meant to.
I even collected same size and color bricks to put under the legs; then got sidetracked. By a year or two.
As I was doing some clean up around the small pond where the bench sits, I was disappointed in myself. There sat the wooden bench showing the same signs of my earlier wooden bench, rotting bottom legs because they are in direct contact with soil.
Now let’s not dwell on the fact that I sit on that bench daily at least once if not half a dozen times. I like to feed the goldfish and, most recently, watch all of the visitors to the nearby patch of blooming spearmint.
Bees, butterflies, wasps, dragon flies, this patch of blooming spearmint is a busy place. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
This week, though, I decided this was not going to continue. I scrounged up four red bricks of the same size, did not allow myself to be distracted, and placed them under the wooden legs to elevate them out of the mulch and soil.
As soon as they dry, I will treat them with a paint to try to stop the rotting.
If not, then my handyman may help me put some new leg bottoms on this bench. It’s an unusually small size and fits perfectly in that spot.
And I should not have allowed this to get to this state.
To try to preserve the leg bottoms, they are now sitting on bricks elevated out of the mulch. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Now where’s my list of things to do. I’m writing this one down to remind myself!
