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Spent this weekend studying and working at the new bench. First, a couple additions to the workspace. The workbench needed some additional light. This bike-wheel-turned-light-fixture that I got from a friend moving to Hawaii is perfect: The space also needed a place to sit down. This fine pleather chair happened to be out on the sidewalk for free: Pickles isn't sure pleather is quite the right aesthetic. She is wrong. After getting all that organized, I could get back to that planter I started last week. Here is the finished product: From further back: After we get some soil, we are going to transplant some of the fast-growing lillies from the front of the house into it. Lastly, I took some of the 4x4's that had been supporting  the kitchen in the house's former life, and edged the garden with them: When I have time to plant a garden again, this will help keep the water on the garden soil instead of it running off into the mulch. I'm going to plant some flowers there in...

I caught a free week between the end of one class and the beginning of a new one, so I was able to make some progress on clearing space in the garage for the kitchen fix-up (now only a month away!). I spent the week cleaning things up, throwing things out, moving things around, and using up materials I've been saving for projects. Project 1: Bedside Shelves Our bed (the rolled up futon on the tatami mat in the picture) is in this little nook in the new room.  It fits great there, but there is no room for bedside tables, so I finally put up these little shelves: Did I use recycled materials from another project, you ask? Yes, yes I did. These are cut from a plank left over from the Great Fence Replacement of 2012, & finished with rub-on polyurethane left over from The Monster Project of 2014-2016. Project 2: Workbench There was a 7-foot piece of structural beam left over from The Monster Project of 2014-2016 that I liked the look of. It's basically a 3 1/2"-thick lengt...