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Crystalie and I set today aside to go over to Wooden Nichols and begin the process of "spring clean up" inside and outside.

It must be spring because we are getting rain today also, which made it a little damp for cleaning out all the flower beds around Wooden Nichols, but I wanted to get it done and it wasn't rain real hard but it was steady. So with a few layers of clothes on, I raked and pulled dead stems of plants and hauled many wheelbarrows of debris out of all the gardens at WN.

Needless to say with all of our warm weather, many of the plants are up and growing,so it was time. I finished all but our parking area border garden as the rain after lunch was falling very heavy and I was damp enough.

Crystalie, began the process of vacuuming around all the walls and windows sucking up dead flies and ladybugs that didn't survive the cold unheated cabin during the winter. Also wiping down window frames and woodwork as she moved around the rooms, moving every piece of furniture and all the wooden boxes and other display pieces.

Since the rain was coming down harder after lunch I washed all the windows inside and out, and the doors, along with cleaning the bathroom sink and stool. At 2:00 I went back outside and finished a few projects and then began loading up items to haul back home with us. We put in about 5 hours of time and got lots done, but there are a few things to finish in the next week, for me anyhow.

Crystalie, has to clean some more, but then she also starts setting up display area's and putting out this years items for sale and a number of consignors will be bring things by in the next 2 weeks, so it will be full of stuff when she opens on May 3rd!

Hi!

This handsome stick man was built by friends of Wooden Nichols, Jan and Art Marcy, who are also consignors. Art made this as a gift for Crystalie, but she also told him we would need him to make some more of these soon! To sell at Wooden Nichols.

So any name idea's for this guy?

Let's see who can get creative with a name...

I should have taken a few pictures today but I didn't get it done.

One would have been of the load of items, I hauled from our friend Nancy's home, they have sold their house and they have called upon Crystalie, to help thin out the items they don't want to keep. But she feels may have some value left in them yet!

So today I dropped off the trailer at their house and Crystalie, went over and started going through the piles of stuff, Nancy had sorted and she even did some dumpster diving. Which is what I should have had another picture of!

But we had my pickup loaded, and my trailer and also a bunch of stuff in Crystalie's Blazer.

As we sort through things, and clean stuff up, you will maybe see it at Wooden Nichols, or around Coffee Lake Farm!

Monday the 28th and a Vacation Day...Last day of February, and it was a nice day not real warm, mid 20's but it was sunny all day.

I spent the day making some wood beads for Crystalie, which I have done in the past, and her supply was pretty much gone. I took some birch sticks and sliced them thin with the radial saw, and the I use my little drill press and drill a hole roughly in the center.

These vary in size and thickness, and she uses for making rustic garland with fabric scraps and the wood beads. The first picture is of the Birch Beads. These will sit in the coffee containers with holes in the bottom in our heat supply cupboard on a wire rack where they will continue to dry out, the dry heat from our hot water heat, will suck all the moisture out of them to keep them from getting mold spots on them.




The secong batch of beads is made again from young birch shoots that are growing along the waters edge, and I cut those last summer. These were nice dry sticks, and as you can see I cut these about 2 inces long, and drill a hole roughly in the center. These too are used for rustic garland, and ornamental pieces on other things, just like the birch beads. That is one of those big pretzel jars, it holds about 2 of the coffee containers.




Just one of the many little things I do for stuff at Wooden Nichols, in fact I was working on my list of things to do for the store but it is too long to type out here. I will post the items when I complete them, I don't need everyone knowing how long my list is!

I also split and stacked some of my logs which I cut up yesterday during the day.