Tea tray finally done

Well, its been a pretty long time since i started working on this tea tray. in fact, it really started during the winter of 09/10, when i found some local maple that was sawn down, convinced bill to get a load of it with me, and stored it in bill’s garage for all of 2010 waiting patiently for it to dry. as you can see when i first started working on it late last year, it still had not fully dried, and got lots of…

Spring is here…

We have had a few nice hot days so far, and all this month my photo theme has been spring. the only bad part, i haven’t taken many pictures!! but i have a few that are spring-y to me. [flickr id=”7253398536″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] my hops (check them out here when they arrived) are doing amazing this year. its year 2 for them, and they get good sun exposure all day, and the soil is super warm in the back alley where they…

Whistler weekend day 2

After getting a good nights rest, and a hearty breakfast, off to whistler we went. if you haven’t been following along, you meet our motley crew in whistler, on a weekend getaway including such fun activities as walking and zip-lining! craziness! so, we hit whistler, and well, there competitions, concerts and who knows what (seriously, i can’t remember) going on. But its super packed with people, and fun vibe. in the parking lot, we saw this awesome van. who wouldn’t want to drive around canada…