Unappreciated Talent :(

Some people just don't get me.... or my special talents. hahahaha

I was showing off my numerous benches last night to a couple friend of ours whom we hadn't had over for a couple of months... I invited them for supper when they called to arrange them coming to pick up a kettle we bought for them at costco...  I made Prime rib roast with gravy and Yorkshire puddings...mashed potatoes and creamed peas and carrots, with pickled beets and coleslaw as sides...it was delicious...and for dessert I had planned an ambitious lemon jelly roll....but ended up making a purse from a pigs ear when my thin cake cracked into pieces upon trying to roll it in the towel...it happens to the best of us..... I've made dozen over the years with great success.  So, since I had the lemon spread and cool whip made...I tossed it, along with the broken cake into a crystal bowl and called it lemon trifle...hahahahaha  they loved it...

But, back to the benches....  I have my lovely blue one sitting by the front entry for people who wish to sit while donning their shoes...they used it but where rather bland in their appreciation of the workmanship and paint technique....Robt wanted to take them up to the barn to show off my giant garden bench that I had just crowned with it's final coat of polyurethane....but they declined, citing they would have to put their outside gear back on if they did....a lame excuse, we thought...so we dropped the subject and sat down to table to enjoy the last roast in the freezer until we butcher again and boring conversation about our male guests imminent retirement in June...and how great it's going to be for him...

We need to find some more friends...and spread the joy around...

today Robt is bringing me some more old fence boards and I will commence ripping them down into the dimensions I need for my latest bench project, and I figured out how to use my tenon cutter and hope to create a new patio table with birch log legs...making the dowelled ends myself...

My head is full of ideas...I just wish I could make money with them...hahahaha
K i j i j i  here I come....