TODAY ON PALLET FUN, FLOATING TURTLE ISLAND

HOW TO MAKE AN ISLAND FOR TURTLES OUT OF AN ORDINARY PALLET

We made this attractive floating island for turtles in our pond out of a standard shipping pallet. We stuffed it full of ten $1.00 swimming pool noodles, lashed them into place with wire ties, attached a piece of twine for an anchor and SS Turtle Island was set afloat.

During initial testing we're just evaluating ease of boarding and float-ability. In future updates we'll locate the island using long twine which will hold the island in the center of the pond for easy viewing.

We've also read that ducks like these sorts of islands, we'll see, time will tell!

TODAY ON PALETTE FUN, FENCES!

HOW TO MAKE A SIMPLE STURDY FENCE TO KEEP OUT DEER

MADE FROM ORDINARY SHIPPING PALLETS

THIS FENCE WAS EASY AND FAST TO ASSEMBLE

We have this banana plant named "Deer Snack", can you guess why we named him this? Actually we have several former Deer Snack banana plants too that are currently in recovery after being munched by marauding deer.

Finally we came up with the ideal rugged protection, a heavy wood fence made out of those pesky wood pallets that big shipments of lawn products inevitably bring to the yard.

DEER SNACK INSIDE HIS PROTECTIVE DECORATIVE FENCE MADE OUT OF PALLETS

Mary had been researching clever uses for pallet wood since we've accumulated a fair number of them from Spring lawn renovation projects. Then, a light went off and the pallet fence was born. It took 12 of our 11" wire ties to bind it all together but now we've got this attractive, protective, planter-like border around little Deer Snack (who has a baby that was very exposed before we installed the new fence). Take that you mean old deer.