No Country For Old Men

This weekend the weather was finally brisk enough I had no viable excuse for not starting on a promised raised bed for NDM in the front yard. A quick trip to Home Depot for 6 8' cedar 1x6s, 2 8' cedar 4x4s, and a box of galvanized screws and there was nothing for it but to dig some holes.
My house was built entirely by unskilled labor, managed by someone who didn't speak the same languages as his workers, couldn't read and write English, and was off-site almost the entire time. What this means for raised beds is that I'm pretty likely to hit construction till immediately under the sod. I used a hand auger with a crowbar for leverage to drill the 4 corner postholes, and I've got to say it is a lot of fun to go through construction till with those tools. Luckily, I only hit an impassable slab of concrete with one post hole -- unluckily, it was the third one I was drilling, so by that point I was committed to its location.

Since I was already planning on using two additional supporting posts at the midpoints of the raised bed's long throw, so I just cut down the impeded corner post (8 subterranean inches instead of 13).
My steam gave out after major construction, but before I put in the two middle posts. With all the trouble my left shoulder has been giving me, I'm getting ready to start officially called it my trick shoulder -- and as expected the raised bed wasn't any help. I think back to when EJB and I threw together all that limestone tiering at my first house in a couple of hours in the rain and am just amazed at how old I am now.