Patio Planters
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade and drinking wine.
I have a friend who would like me to make a couple of planters for her yard.
Perhaps she will get some ideas of the kind of thing she wants, needs, and desires from these pictures. Hey, I’m just going to be building them and filling them with dirt.
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used railway sleepers (ties) make a great, everlasting planter
and they are strong enough to use as a retaining wall
but you should really line them with something
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
stone planters are a cool idea
this isn’t as difficult as it looks
Marmaduke’s Christmas Bird House
Marmaduke the Teddy Bear Carpenter
He’s very skilled for a little teddy bear, and Marmaduke also loves nature, so he’s been making a rustic bird house to keep the little robin redbreasts safe over the cold winter. And, like a good little bear, he’s finished the work well in time for Christmas.
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The snag was, when he’d finished the thing, he wanted to keep it for himself, and moved in with all his possessions, even his marmalade.
Eventually he realised that the little birds needed it more than he does, so now it’s gone. Marmaduke loves robyns especially.
All cool guys should be able to do a little woodwork, it’s an urban survival skill.
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Marmaduke’s Wildlife Woodwork
After the success he had making a traditional North of England wooden stool, (a cracket), Marmaduke has been looking around for his next project. He and I had a few words of disagreement about making a mess in the garret, but as usual he has got his way.
So now he’s got lots of board-feet of treated timber, and he’s going to make a bird table. (For the life of me I can’t remember what bird tables are called in the USA.)
The garret is full of pressure treated out-doors type wood.
And Marmaduke says that he’s going to make something like this.
I said he should hurry up and get it done. For; the north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow, and what will poor Robyn do then, poor thing?
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Woodwork at Advent
There is something very therapeutic about working with wood.
Marmaduke and I made a stool as a Christmas gift for a close friend. A cool guy should be able to do some carpentry.
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
I seem to have really caught the carpentry bug again. So, what’s next? Build a boat in the basement?
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no little teddy bears were hurt during the making of this little cracket
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
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