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| A family of deer make their way across our garden |
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| This rabbit has been hanging around quite regularly. Here he is hanging out by the horseshoe stake. |
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| One of the pair of hawks that hunts near the pond |
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| Some butterflies mating |
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| Woodpecker testing the willow trees by the pond |
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| One of the resident turtles |
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| A young deer at the back of the pond |
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| One of the many Cardinals that live round our house. |
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| In a previous post I joked that in winter, some trees have leaves and others don't. This one doesn't have leaves in summer either, because it's dead. It does make a nice home for loads of spiders though. |
With family coming in the summer, I've been busy building a bed for them to sleep on. I designed it in Sketchup and went to a local sawmill to buy the wood. The sawmill was really impressive, a massive operation and a far better range and choice than is available at home depot/lowes, and much cheaper as well. Just the headboard left to finish and mount. I focused on showing the best looking wood grain on outside surfaces and hiding any of the wood screws from view making use of kreg jig pre-drilled holes. I managed to use up some older, less attractive wood for the slats as they will never be seen.
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| Queen bed design with storage underneath. |
