And other such fun pass times, like eating bees, digging up hornets nests, playing slap tag with wasps, and getting high off centipedes. It’s all fun and games until you get stung on the cornea, then it’s war!
Friday is here and the lawn could do with a good mow right about now. Our extracurricular schedules are heating up as we draw close to the end of the session. Timing, and time management are going to play a very real part of our lives over the next two to three weeks. That, and open communication will help us mitigate stress and anger. So, good luck with all of that! To us, and all of you out there whom happen to be in a similar boat. Things will settle down after the first week of June. I mean that does lead us into summer break and the kids being home 24/7 for nine weeks, but we love them, so we make it work.
The farm is set to plant some five hundred native apple trees this weekend. From what I understand three hundred forty of them have gone in the ground all ready, so not too much farther to go. They are more widely spaced than the previous orchard of some twelve hundred fifty trees of eight or so varieties. I made signs for those several Christmas’s ago using my router and four ten foot lengths of cedar planking. It took me a while to do.
We will have to make a cider press to deal with all of these apples before too much longer. Could be a fun project to build. Speaking of which, I think we decided on making a dog bed with a pull out drawer as our next wood working project for the house. The current dog crate is gigantic, and we never lock him in it any more. He has proven himself fairly trust worthy, at least when the kids bedroom doors are shut and he can’t chew their stuffed animals to pieces. No accidents in the house, or furniture damages. So to reclaim the space his stuff will go on a low rise bedframe, and the crate can go back to my inlaws. Should make the front hall more open, and easier to navigate. I hope. I’ll likely make a furniture build post or two about it when I get to it. It requires a lower frame, a drawer, and an upper frame to hold the bedding. Nothing too crazy fancy. I’m thinking; box joints with the router. Half inch plywood interior, floating inside the upper frame rails. Pretty easy. Two boxes that fit inside one another, and one that sits on top. Bam. Golden! Just need to draw it up, and build it.
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