Butterfly Houses

George has made dozens of butterfly houses for the members of the Rainier Senior Center, as gifts for all the hard work they do.  Everyone contributes.  Many seniors help cook, clean up, bake, pick up food, sew, quilt, take care of the yard and garden.  The teamwork at the Rainier Senior Center is amazing.  

We socialize at the Senior Center.  The food is wonderful.  Everything is home made.

New Wood Sewing Box

One of the members of the Rainier Senior Center asked George to make a special sewing box for a friend as a gift.  This box was made out of special wood, given to George by my brother, Gary and his wife, Sharon.  It has a tray from Michael's and padded lid.  It took quite a while for George to make this.  It turned out very nice!

It is finished, except he put glides on the bottom, after I took the pictures of it.

Wine Carrier w/2 Glasses

George has made several of these wine carriers that holds 2 glasses and a bottle of wine, or sparkling cider.  You can pick one up at the Tenino Time Machine.  

Note:  Most of these have been made to give away as gifts for the Rainier Senior Center BINGO black out prizes, or RSC raffle (with bottles of cider.)

Melanie's Garden Table

My daughter, Melanie, lives in an apartment in Seattle.  She sent us this picture of the tomatoes she grew this year.  WOW!!!

Below is a picture of the white cedar Wishing Well George made her, as well as the white cedar Potting Bench and Strawberry Barrel (from a 55 gallon pickle barrel.)

Pictures of Garage and Back Yard

Porch & Deck on back of the house - on the right hand side.

Back of the house - left hand side with crawl space for under the house as well as tip out.

8' x 10' storage container that was Bob's.  Habitat for Humanity came and emptied it.

George and I took down Bob's carport.  Donated it and cleaned up the stuff that was in it.  

All in all we took 4 loads to the dump.

Roof that was over Bob's trailer.  It is being cleaned out underneath and

will be torn down.

10' x 20' greenhouse. 

Vegetable garden.

Herb garden and compost tea barrel.

Garage with 18' W  x 21' L carport, where we dry lumber,

sand and stain woodworking projects.

Carport.  Lumber is drying that we picked up last week.

Carport and garage.

Back of house & garage - showing perspective.  The fence

is used to keep dogs in the area behind the house when we're not

home, so they can go in and out of the back porch, even if it's raining.

Pictures of our House

We got a new, 30 year roof & new skylight about 4 years ago.

Front right hand side of house.

Front - left side of house.

Back - left side of house w/tipout.

Back - right side of house with small deck/porch.

(Roof showing on the left hand side belongs to a wishing well.)

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