Walla Walla in April… and the winery projects…
Well, it’s April here in the Valley of the Two Wallas. It snowed great huge snow flakes this morning – no they were really snow (flake) clumps. The snow flakes formed together and then fell to the ground as wet clumps that were one to two inches in diameter. The front of my jacket was totally coated with wet slushy snow by the time I had walked to Shady Lawn.
The snow flakes were actually bigger before I could get my camera out...
This afternoon it was sunny and tomorrow the high temperature is predicted to be 67 degrees…
It seems like I haven’t posted anything of great significance for several weeks. I have been struggling to come up with something that seems interesting and/or important to write about.
This morning I realized that this period of blogging inactivity directly correlated to a project that I have been working on for a local winery. I have been building a high backed bench and an industrial looking shelving unit out of reclaimed wood.
Repairing some cracks in the reclaimed barn wood that I am using for the winery project...
Shady Lawn Antiques is open for sales from Tuesday through Saturday. I have been putting in full days on Sundays and Mondays, as well as most mornings, into the construction of the winery pieces. So my weeks have been full… and I think my mind has been as well.
I have never built a bench or a shelving unit exactly like either of these before. So I have been continuously thinking about the best way to complete the next step in the construction.
Generally ideas for blog posts just sort of come to my mind – mostly written. Right now construction ideas and techniques are just coming to my mind – mostly uncompleted…
I’ve been taking pictures to document the winery project construction process and I will share them with you over the next several weeks… but first the construction and then the bragging blogging…
Right now, I just hope that it will be 67 degrees tomorrow…
You must have more clamps than anyone else in the business