Mailbox Makeover

So we bought our house in October 2016. I NEVER, in a million years, thought I would be able to buy a house, but I DID!
We agreed that we'd buy a house that required zero to little work and ended up settling on a project house. Life, man. That's how it works, right?

Project no. 1 was our mailbox. The one in front of our house was old and sad.
The previous owner was rude enough to leave the house full of junk, but awesome enough to also leave a bag of unmixed concrete.

I pulled out the old mailbox, dug a narrow deep hole, mixed the concrete in a 5 gallon bucket using an old fire poker, and got to work. I used an outdoor waterproof stain for the post. At first, I spray painted the mailbox and that looked AWFUL so I went & bought a new mailbox at our local home depot & installed that sucker. Then I adhered our mailbox numbers on each side of the post. (Those dudes are expensive omg). Lastly, I sat some rocks around the bottom because our back yard is covered in them and I've gotta do something with them.

Awful Spray paint job below. :/


AND FINALLY...the finished project + new box: