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Garden Report — Sept 1

1 September 2009

A cou­ple more notes from the gar­den. The nico­tiana in the bird bath bed con­tin­ues to thrive. This dark pur­ple vari­ety can really soak up the sun. The last man stand­ing in the library bed has been moved to a new home on the other side of the front door. Once the roundup has done it’s […]

Tagged as: cypress, nicotiana

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Garden Report — August 30

30 August 2009

It’s been hot and dry for much of the sum­mer. That’s hard on the plants and I know that I’m going to have to move some things that haven’t han­dled the heat well come fall. Mean­while I’ve been replac­ing some of the things that we lost in last winter’s deep freeze. Rose­mary is some­thing that I […]

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Finished Upholstry

3 July 2009

The porch fur­ni­ture cush­ions are fin­ished. (For­give the grumpy look­ing guy — he was wait­ing impa­tiently to find out whether or not his elbow was bro­ken. He’s bet­ter now.) Some­day I’ll get around to mak­ing chair pads for the din­ing set. Not just yet though.

Tagged as: sewing, upholstery

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New Tools, Continuing Upholstry and No More Room

22 June 2009

I got tools from Rio Grande this after­noon. Clock­wise from the top. Ring man­drel — very pleased with the qual­ity and heft. Par­al­lel pli­ers — thank you Sarah L. for get­ting me addicted to those expen­sive lit­tle dears. Raw hide mal­let for bang­ing on metal. Ring clamp for hold­ing onto things and not sand­ing my […]

Tagged as: bench, parallel pliers, rawhide mallet, ring clamp, ring mandrel, snips, upholstery

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Garden Report

14 June 2009

The peonies are almost ready to bloom. How odd that I saw my sister’s peonies in full bloom in Pitts­burgh more than 2 weeks ago.

Tagged as: peonies

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Feeling Nesty — Part I

14 June 2009

Today we declared a scav­enger hunt day. We have a list of things we’d like to have for the house but haven’t found just the right one yet. We were wildly suc­cess­ful. Our last gazebo was destroyed by the snow last win­ter. We finally found a gazebo/screen house that was small enough for the spot between […]

Tagged as: gazebo, screen house

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Garden Report

10 May 2009

Happy Mother’s Day week­end. Gar­den­ing sea­son now begins in earnest in Puge­topo­lis. We did our part to add to the may­hem. Begin­ning with some addi­tions to the kitchen gar­den. A cou­ple of ser­rano chiles, four basils and an even dozen ran­dom let­tuce plants. If we cut only a cou­ple of sal­ads a week this will […]

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Signs of Spring. 3/$10

16 February 2009

From QFC this morning:

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II">Stenciling a Three Panel Screen, Part II

11 February 2009

More on the screen for Jim’s office. Once the sten­cil had had chance to dry I took the fab­ric pan­els off the screen (yeay vel­cro.) I didn’t do any prep work on the fab­ric  -  poly(?) can­vas. The paint will stick well enough and I don’t expect to try to wash the pan­els. By the […]

Tagged as: crows, screen

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Stenciling a Three Panel Screen

10 February 2009

In order to hide the backs of a num­ber of mon­i­tors and com­put­ers in Jim’s office we put up a cheap three panel screen. It’s very bor­ing thing. But… the pan­els are white “can­vas” and that means they don’t have to stay bor­ing. So I finally found a sten­cil that I wanted to use in […]

Tagged as: screen, stencil

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