BUILDING MORE THINGS

Even though the weather has been quite nice in the past few weeks, we’ve been in the shop doing some building projects.  In our garage, we’ve been storing patio chair cushions, hoses and a variety of summer stuff under the stairs and landing to our house door.  And as usual, we’ve used cardboard boxes as containers.

So Stuart had the brilliant idea to build a large “drawer” on castors that can be easily pushed and pulled under the landing.  He designed and built it out of MDF (our “go to” material), put 4 castors on it and then I painted the usual 3 coats. 

Because it sits under the landing that is built of deck boards with spaces, dirt and debris fall through to whatever is underneath.  So we attached a cardboard lid to the drawer that can easily fold back out of the way.  It sure looks a lot neater.

We decided to purchase a new TV this spring as our 13 year old one is is starting to show its age.  After much research and waiting for a good price, we secured a good deal on one from Visions in Kelowna and picked it up this past weekend.  It is a 65” Samsung with 4K SUHD and is a great improvement. 

Now the TV did not come with a stand so we had another building project.  The design needed to accommodate the home theater center speakers and components for the TV and the home theatre sound system and be an appropriate height and width for the TV.  Again, Stuart designed and built it to meet our needs.  This time, he spray painted it using black furniture paint so I didn’t’ have to do anything on that project.  Hmm.  I might get replaced by a paint sprayer!!  Anyway, the stand is very functional and looks as good as an Ikea product.

I planted peas about 10 days ago and am waiting for them to sprout up.  Hopefully, the weather has been warm enough.  I’m pleased to see that the chickadees have set up house in one of our bird houses—not the one that they were originally checking out, though.  This one is at the front of the house in a fir tree and is more hidden than the other one.

Good news to share about my knee.  I got the call last week for arthroscopic surgery on April 8 in Trail and am looking forward to getting it done.  It is earlier than we hoped for and it will be nice to work on recovery before too much of the golf season has passed.

Happy spring to you.