Project #1: Add a shelf to the Disaster Cabinet
We have one cabinet in the kitchen that has proven just impossible to keep organized:
The mess -- and the hassle and racket whenever we try to get anything out -- drives us both crazy. On Saturday, I made a shelf out of a leftover 2x4, along with a pair of stops to keep the baking sheets from sliding away from the wall:
Result:
Much better!
Project #2: Clear out the dying pumpkin vine in the front yard
The pumpkin vine in the front yard has grown very large, but the plant is succumbing to the dreaded powdery mildew, and the pumpkins are rotting on the vine. Its days are numbered. We have six or eight different succulent cuttings -- generous donations from Jennifer, Jon, & Susie -- just about ready to be planted in the yard, so I decided today to pull out the vine to make room for the replanting to begin.
Much to my surprise, after I had already hacked the vines apart, I found this under the giant leaves:
DAMMIT!
Project #3: Do something with the rosemary tree
We bought a hammock this week that fits perfectly in a semi-shady/semi-sunny corner of the yard, right next to a overgrown and mostly dead rosemary tree:
To make a little more room to get in and out of the hammock, and to reduce the number of spiders that could drop on an unsuspecting napper, I removed the left side of the tree.
Meanwhile, there is a nice craggy part at the same level of the hammock that would make a perfect place to rest a drink, with just a little modification. A few taps on a chisel later:
Afternoon snoozing perfection:
It will be hard to be back at work this week, knowing that that hammock is out there, but I will be brave and do my best. I'm only working three days this week -- taking the two days off before my birthday! --- so I'm sure I will survive somehow.
Your puttering is most impressive. Most impressive, indeed. Sorry about the fledgling pumpkin cut off in its prime. But you did find a lighter, so... that's something, anyway.
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