Category Archives: Gardening

Bird Houses

I put this one together out of cedar, drawer knobs, drawer pulls and a tin can.

This one was recently given to me and I believe made by an uncle. I repainted it 2 shades of green and added the small knob for a perch.

Our Motel Chair

The term Motel Chair is a new one to me. Somewhere I read they are called this because they showed up near pools or outside the front offices of Route 66 motels. This one was given to us by Nova’s Father and I believe it was her Grand-mothers. I can’t recall the original color. Pictured above many years after I repainted it in 2007. I like the patina it now has but Nova want’s it repainted.

Here I am in 2007 sandblasting it at a friends.

Garden Bench

I just come across these photos of garden benches I made a few years ago. They are a simple design I come up with on the fly. I made 2, one for ourselves and one for our Daughter. Ours is the painted one which eventually started to rot and also needed to be moved from its location so we just got rid of it. Our Daughter gave hers to a neighbor when she moved and no longer had a place for it.