arts and crafts day at the centenarian

While I continue to receive many reports from folks about how beautiful it's been in SoCal, Adrienne and I spent yet another weekend in-doors seeking refuge from the rain and trying not to turn on any lights inside until after 2pm.  Whoops - scratch that...I just realized as I type that the living room light has been on all day.

But...weekends such as this make the heart grow fonder for spring and then summer, when we can once again while away the long PacNorWest days in the garden and around a fire.  So we embraced that fuzzy feeling for the next season and knocked out a few projects that will enrich those soon-to-be lazy days of something other than winter.

I saw this portable deck-seat online at some fancy art store for $800.  Stole the idea and 

build it for two orders of magnitude less.

Adrienne spent the better part of the day organizing her seed inventory into 

some new seed sleighs I made for her.  

We extended our growing capabilities into the front yard - stay tuned, 

some Jerusalem artichokes will be planted in these.

Adrienne brushed these 40 paint stirrers with chalkboard paint - now she 

can write and erase plant labels for the garden.

These are old windows from Seattle's awesome Re-Store - each cost $6, and I was able to make little greenhouses outside so AJ can grow some stuff over the winter.