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29 mei 2006
Log Thievery
YPSIDIXIT'S NEIGHBORS cut down a dead tree this weekend. Y. was eyeing the resulting log sections all weekend, thinking covetously, "Y'know, one o' them logs would make a unique and cool table."
Tonight under cover of darkness I made my move. I took my damnably squeaky wheelbarrow, which I kept shushing, to no avail. Once at the log-pile, I chuckled to see how unrealistic it would be to heft one of these ginormous logs into the wheelbarrow. Ain't gonna happen. I selected the biggest, prettiest log, and rolled her stealthily home. Got it into the house...somehow. One of those baby-under-the-truck moments. I'm just glad I didn't break a leg in the process.
I moved my Squeaky Peep (pictured) to its new place of honor on my new log-table! Also a book on Civil War prisons and one of the pottery trilobites I made in my pottery trilobite series. Yes sir, my new log table is quite at home! No, you can't get it at IKEA! Yes, I furnish my home with the arboreal castoffs of strangers! I just hope it doesn't start growing fungus or something. Ick-o. Or break my floor with its awesome weight. Log table! Geeked! Exhausted! Not only am I streaming in sweat from log-table exertions, I also reek of stinky fish from planting my remaining corn-mounds today. Very attractive, all in all. Time to call it a day and close out the Mem. Day weekend. Hope yours was fun and enjoyable.
Log table!
Posted by ypsidixit at 29 mei 2006 23:22
Comments
Paint the ends with whatever you decide to use on your floors.
Posted by: doug at 30 mei 2006 02:12
Doug: That's a good idea. I was going to paste-wax the floors, as soon as I find someone who carries "SC Johnson Paste Wax."
Posted by: Laura at 30 mei 2006 09:43
Log end-tables also make very nice foot stools. After they become very dry from sitting indoors, they usually wind up IN the woodstove. A fine and fitting end to a tree section used to warm up a cool and damp saturday morning.
Posted by: j. Delcamp at 30 mei 2006 12:47
That's a nice idea. I would love to get a wood stove, definitely.
I love my log table more than the fanciest piece of furniture you could make from this wood. Good enough for me.
Posted by: Laura at 30 mei 2006 12:58
I just got a can of that wax recently-It must have either been Home Depot, Lowes, or Meijers-the only places I seem to go.
Posted by: doug at 30 mei 2006 17:04
Doug: Ah, that is helpful. Thank you for the tips. I'll take a peek at Meijer's and HD.
Posted by: Laura at 30 mei 2006 18:39
One thing that is nice about a table like that is that if you have a wild party and someone gets up on top of it to dance with a lamp shade on their head, it wont break even if they are really fat! I dont know about you but even though I dont have those kinds of parties anymore, it would be comforting to know that I was ready for one.
Posted by: lynne at 30 mei 2006 21:40