Home Improvements

We are still in home improvement mode. Well we were until it hit 100 yesterday. That will slow things down a bit. Growing Japanese maples here in the central valley of California is challenging.  We have heat and drought and hot winds. If we were living in say the beautiful Willamette Valley in Oregon it would be somewhat easier. So last weekend I showed you photos of the shade cover that Ron built to protect his Japanese maples that he grafted on to his root stock.

Here  is the garden shade if you missed it.

This weekend, after having to go all the way around through two gates to get in the house. He decided he needed a secret gate through the fence. We love secret gates. From inside the yard you don't know they are there until you get right up to it.

Which made it really easy to bring him coffee without spilling it five times before getting here. We went in and out and it was funny to watch the dog and the cats and the kids walk in and look around at it.

Then he needed a table to be a work bench so he made one of those. I will tell you the truth, I have table envy in the worst way. I did think about sneaking out here one night and putting it in my loft. It is really too heavy I think to get up the stairs by myself. He must of known because now it has his little trees on it.

Isn't that just the best table? Here is another shot of it.

He has plans to make some more things like a really pretty bench to put his trees on but he has to dig drains and lots of stuff like that. He wants to make a thing called mist chamber for propagating cuttings. He bought things so he can put in an overhead mister to keep the trees damp when the hot winds blow and dry every thing out so bad. Today is bad because of the fires in L.A. and the winds are blowing the smoke here so it makes it seem so much hotter.

That was what my hubby did this weekend. He was so busy making things. It is nice to watch him do projects and then I get to blog about it. I of course don't do anything but sit in a chair and watch. And ask him things like, " If we lived in a parallel universe would time travel be possible?" Then he has to think and measure.

That is how it is around here this weekend. I have lots of interesting scraps of wood to play with.
Have a great week.

~Kim~