Bluebird House

Bluebird House 03/22/2010

Angela runs the 5th and 6th grade student council with Colleen and she asked me to build a bird house for student council to raffle off at their spaghetti dinner this Wednesday, 3/24/10. I looked around and didn't really have any nice pine left. I could have used some of the walnut I got years ago from Rick that he sawed at his own little mill. But then I remembered there were a bunch of cedar logs across the street at Ed's because when the electric company came to trim trees near the wires Ed asked if they could also cut down the dead cedar trees. One of the sawyers said he'd cut them down and asked Ed if he could have them for posts at his own house. Ed said "sure" but the guy never came to get them. They sat there all fall and all winter and now that it's spring, I went over and got a wheelbarrow full (with Ed's permission) of cedar for the birdhouse. (Actually, before winter got going, when it was clear that the guy was never coming to get them, I brought over some of the cedar logs that were about 12 feet long and put them in the bungalow for safe keeping.) Using the chain saw and a few other tools, I made a birdhouse to be raffled. I'm off now to get a pressure treated eight foot long 2X4 that I'll cut into two 2X2's by 8 feet and include one with the cedar house and use one for a post for a bird house at school. I'll make the posts shorter, of course, since a bluebird house shouldn't be too high off the ground.