Kitchen Work Starts

IKEA boxes arrive - all 154 packages.

Henrik just loves the stick pictures with no text.

Just what are you looking at?  HK gets right into the kitchen building job!

Roll front cabinets ready to be installed.

Upper cabinets await installation also....

along with the wall oven and one base cabinet...only 10 more boxes to build. Then doors, shelves, drawer slides, handles, counter top, butcher block, cook top, dishwasher.......etc...

AO building cabinets on the floor.

Frodo sleeps through most of the commotion.  Being deaf has some benefits.

Deck Painting Completion and Garden

The deck has been painted and is waiting for furniture and flowers to make it complete.

And then of course we need someone to sit still long enough to enjoy it!  After the kitchen work has been completed that shouldn't be a problem.

The garden is in bloom.  A little messy as the gardeners have been pre-occupied with other tasks, but none-the-less the garden looks very pretty. 

AOs Assignment Progress

At an hour or two per day the wood pile has nearly been completed. The fir had already been on the ground for 6 months, so a few months in the summer heat in the woodshed, will give us good hot fires next winter. 

AOs assignment

Ah...summer vacation and 2 cords of firewood need to be split and stacked....nothing like relaxing fun in the July heat.

HK stops to read a book with a friend.

HK actually stopped to read a book.  There was a little tree frog on the bricks behind him.  

Tree frog on the wall.  He stayed in the same spot all day.

Garden Production

The loganberries are producing quite a lot this year.  I have harvested about 4 lbs of fruit and expect at least that much more in the coming weeks. 

The red currants were hit hard by the birds and the harvest was smaller than usual this year. Unfortunately, I don't think there is enough fruit to make jelly.

A few lovely peas in the sunshine. 

Yummy!!

Everything extra has been blanched and frozen for next winter.

We'll have these for
Christmas dinner!

More Deck Work

The spaces between all the boards had to be sanded prior to painting. HK manufactured a deck scraping tool for the job.

And then started sanding....

and sanding....and sanding....a lot!

Next came the first coat of paint.

It has taken a few days to get it painted.  Hopefully it will be finished this week.