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December 15th, 2009 @ 10.42 pm

The cute little red shed that was in our back yard did it’s job for probably 40 years, but it was falling apart. I kept the mower in it, but I also put a tarp over the mower to keep the rain off, and used anything solid to prop the doors “closed.” The sill plates were rotted out, the doors were about to fall off their hinges at any moment and decompose, and there was daylight visible through the roof. Once the garage was up, the mower had a new home, and the shed no longer was needed, and so I waited for a good day to take it down.

I could have carefully dismantled it. Or I could have taken a saw and cut it to pieces. Or even a sledge hammer to break it apart. But when I’m taking down an entire (very small) building, why not go all out and pull it down with a truck? I waited until I had a reasonably dry and sunny day to have fun, but it has been so wet this fall I still had trouble with traction. Oh well, it was still lots of fun tearing down the shed.