Following the hectic move from seminary, I've been enjoying a few weeks of rest while visiting my family in West Virginia. I'm determined to start a vegetable container garden in an effort to eat better and live, as Saint Benedict urges, "by the sweat of your brow." I've grown from seed green beans, arugula, green onions, and hopefully some of my baby spinach seeds will pop. I've added an established tomato plant as well as a jalapeno pepper plant. Maybe by late July or early August I'll have some food to show for my labor.
I found a pile of old wood from a clapboard fence that was ripped out at my parent's house. I decided that I wanted to try my hand at some more woodwork by recycling and repurposing old wood. So far, I've built a potting table, a bench, and two plant stands.
The potting bench was really fun to build and I did not make any drawings as such, just went forward with what I had envisioned in my mind.
The bench and plant stands are for my parent's house, they were built for a side porch that needed some pizazz. I'm going to paint these in a milky-green antique color to give some curb appeal and pop.
All in all, I'm managing to stay pretty busy and the work is relaxing. Having free labor around the house is not going to waste, for sure. I find that I rather enjoy the challenge of repurposing old wood in order to create new and useful things.
