Take this stack of log cabin birdhouses, for instance. Though they became a solid pile all in one fell swoop, individually they took a bit of time to cut, sand, assemble and trim.
["The wood, rescued western cedar, was a real steal"]
The pile of finished houses began its life as scrap lumber in the back of a friend's truck.
"I thought of you," said Steve K. when he recently stopped for a few minutes in my driveway on his way to a local landfill site. "Want these boards from an old fence?"
I gave the messy pile a look and a sniff and wanted it. Fence slats became birdhouses within the week. But other projects got priority treatment before I turned two rotting fence posts (4" by 4" by 6 ft. long) into logs for cabins and slats for roofs. The wait, in my opinion - to cull the oldest, shaggiest bits - was worth it.
Stay tuned.
Photo by GH
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