Lee DeRaud
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Well, I'm retired, so I guess I'm always 'on vacation', but this was sort of my excuse for not doing much woodworking this summer: only took me 27+ years to figure out everything I didn't like about the original owner's landscaping and get straight in my head what to do about it, but so it goes.
The "before":
There was originally a small patio cover but I nuked it a couple years ago when I had the new windows put it...it was 25 years old and practically falling down at that point anyway.
The "after":
Still a bunch of tweaking of plants and whatnot to be done, but nothing that needs to be done now, if you get my drift. I let the contractor do the new cover: just too much heavy lifting for my taste. But the A/C enclosure and the bench are mine...hardly "fine woodworking" but at least some of my tools got a workout (besides the pick and shovel).
The real problem is that the patio is now a whole lot nicer place to spend time than my garage/shop.
The "before":
There was originally a small patio cover but I nuked it a couple years ago when I had the new windows put it...it was 25 years old and practically falling down at that point anyway.
The "after":
Still a bunch of tweaking of plants and whatnot to be done, but nothing that needs to be done now, if you get my drift. I let the contractor do the new cover: just too much heavy lifting for my taste. But the A/C enclosure and the bench are mine...hardly "fine woodworking" but at least some of my tools got a workout (besides the pick and shovel).
The real problem is that the patio is now a whole lot nicer place to spend time than my garage/shop.
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