The picket project...

A while back I started discussing the picket fence Mr. Dollz was building. (You can see Mr. Dollz in one of the photos.)

390 pickets, 20 fence posts later, he has completed the job. By law, the finished side of the fence has to face our neighbor's yards and so it does.

As you can see, we live very close to our neighbors. We live in the historic part of town. Our house will be 100 years old next year, but there are houses from the 1700's in our neighborhood. Many do not have driveways since they were built before the car was in use. (Makes for an interesting situation since parking is only allowed on one side of the road.)

Many homes still have hitching posts in front of them. And... George Washington camped on this street and other streets in town. The camping places are all marked with brass plaques.

It was big job and somebody had to do it. Good job, Mr. Dollz! You saved us thousands of dollars and the fence is really wonderful!

I see the weekend is just about here...

so enjoy the day and have a wonderful weekend!

One picket at a time.....

My husband is building a new picket fence...once picket at a time.

So, our basement is filled with pickets that he has cut and primed. He actually has a few hundred more to go. I admire him for this because this is the way to get things done.

The pickets are not the same as the beautiful box he recently made for me out of exotic woods.

Nor are the pickets like the reproduction Singer Featherweight table he made for one of my Singer Featherweights.


The pickets are not like the tiger maple that went in the contemporary table for my white Featherweight that he made from my design.


Yet all these things have one thing in common...they were made one piece at a time.

I was thinking a lot about this when I was in the basement doing laundry. In a world where things are often shoddy, disposable and made in haste, it is good to know there are people who still use the principle...one picket at a time.

Slow down...and enjoy the day!