When Jim retired from the ministry in '99 the church we were serving gave us a terrific retirement party and a wonderful gift: A carved wooden sign for the Garden Centre:
This has stood at the end of our driveway for almost 20 years now, and was looking very much worse for wear. I had repainted it once long ago, but it needed a lot of help.
Two weeks ago I devoted a lot of time to it. I sanded and scraped and then put on a good coat (or was it two) of Killz primer. Then I repainted the whole thing. It took two coats. It was totally worth the effort! It looks absolutely as good as new.
We had some help this weekend erecting it again. It's solid wood, 2 x 2s, and really, really heavy. Our carpenter had put in new posts--that was quite a job in itself. And then some friends helped us carry it from the greenhouse where I had done the renew, and set it up on the new posts. Alas, it teetered on the rock underneath. Craig, who is enormously strong, lifted the big rock and moved it over, took some dirt out from underneath. Had to repeat that process, but the result is lovely.
This finished project was completely worth all the effort it took. We are very happy with it.
And in July our landscape is always at its most colourful, so here are a few pictures of it today:
And here's the rented construction fence, guarding our small vegetable garden from the deer depredations:
This is working very well, and I'm so glad I thought of this. Dinner tomorrow will be "Kale Plus" with pretty much everything, except rice, coming from this garden.
We had a terrific windstorm yesterday which tore down the sugar snap pea vines. I'm hoping enough of them will survive to keep us in fresh sugar snaps for a long time yet.
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