Everyone needs a table to rest their work upon while enjoying a lazy day in the sun. These Flintstone style tables now adorn my porch. Over the Christmas holidays I scavenged about 10 feet of fallen cedar timber which a neighbor had lovingly left on the curb for the trash man to pick up. Such a waste I thought.  Five of those ten feet have been converted for use as drink rests, homework holders, or foot rests.  Each piece has a cherry wood top finished with tung oil for protection. The bases are free-hand routed ceder stumps with cement inlays.  The wood left showing has had a veneer of colored oil applied to further highlight the inlaying affect.   These took a few weekends to complete with the odd hour here or there. I have enjoyed the project, and will keep an eye out for more wood.

Over the Christmas holidays I pilfered  a bundle of wire from my parents house. The remainder of the unused wire was discretely returned.  The used portion become fused with spent grains from home brewing and a gallon of left over paint from my wife’s parents.  The resultant creation of this odd marriage of materials is a 1 foot square man pretzel.  He (if you look close enough?) will be mounted on the bricks of my house overlooking the back porch.