Weekend Projects

Here's a project that we are proud of. Here's Leslie standing next to yet another of her brilliant ideas: a new trellis designed to hide some of the ugliness of the garage apartment next door. Leslie bought two trellis panels that she felt would complement the trellises on the garage, or come close enough. But they were two...well, separate. So she found some rectangular molding in the workroom downstairs and cut 6 pieces to join the two panels. Then she thought she could use the leftover to create a vertical piece in the middle of the two. It looks like it was sold that way. After painting with the gray stain we used on the garage and letting it dry out overnight, she fastened it to the fence and voila! a nice Oriental-style trellis for training vines to run on.

Meanwhile, I built steps to the alley with leftover hexagonal flagstones, so now it's easier to get down to empty the trash. It involved a lot of digging and dirt work.

We had two great days for working, even with the mid-afternoon rain shower we had on Saturday. Maybe we can actually rest on Memorial Day.

Later on today we will be picked up by Kerry Gilb, who's in for a weekend visit, and be taken to a backyard hotdog cookout, where we will see Beth Fullerton, who's also in for a visit. It will be good for Dale to see Beth, whose wedding was the first he performed on New Year's Day, 1996. Just last Saturday he performed his 6th wedding.