If you thought the other day was murky and mucky! Well I spoke too soon. Yesterday drizzled and snowed flurried on and off and the murk deepened. And the skunk is back. We have not seen her but we can smell her, not on TonTon yet but you remember last year. This dog is a skunk magnet. It looks like the Ton’s before-bed constitutional will be taken with attendants, and no unescorted early morning jaunts, no more popping out for a pee in the night. Back to skunk rules.
The beams that we found in the junk yard have been hauled into John’s workshop
with all their beautiful character, to be blasted, sanded, oiled and sealed.
They are laying on smiling trestles. These will be installed into The Coupe as 14 foot tall uprights, floor to ceiling, guarding either side of the bed, a curtain rail running between them. This will create a visual separation between the bed area and the sitting area.
The Kitchens Garden garden is growing. The cabbages are already on their way. They will go out with the onions, lettuces, chard and a few others the day the ground can be worked. Yesterday was a good day to stay inside and make french vanilla kefir icecream (very successful), a honey kefir cake (a complete disaster but the pigs loved it) and watch the cabbages grow.
There is a veritable forest of plants growing in the bathroom window. 
Next year they will be started in a greenhouse. We won’t know ourselves!
There is even a Jonathon Livingston Seagull tomato. Growing faster and bigger than the rest. Soaring to new heights.
Good morning. I hope you all have a lovely day. It is time for me to begin mine.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
38 responses to “Polishing the beams and Growing Cabbages in the Window”
I love old wood! Oh, the history it could tell! I know it will look beautiful in the coupe.
I’ll be starting my seeds next week! I can’t wait to get my hands dirty again….
Those beams are absolutely spectacular C, and how wonderful you were able to recycle them into their next new life! When we reno’d our kitchen 6 years ago, JT and I did a lot of work ourselves and it was so gratifying. We recycled the bricks from the back of the house to be reused below the window sills in the addition. I was so pleased, unfortunately our brick layer used the inside of the bricks because he thought they looked newer…when I really wanted the patina of the old outside. Oh well, in about 70 years you won’t be able to tell the difference.
Your vegetables are coming along very nicely; I’ve never had much luck growing from seeds.
Love those smiling trestles! When i read your header I saw “polishing the beans” and wondered “what the heck is she up to today”?!
I love the beans and nice work with the seedlings. You’d think the skunk would stand out with all the snow you’ve had 😉
Probably why Ton has not ben Skunked yet!! c
I wish you and him luck, poor Ton probably sees the skunk as a new dog or cat to sniff 😦
The trestle does have a happy face. Poor Ton, that skunk is about to restrict his freedom. It would be nice if those meetings could be averted though.
I absolutely love those beams. Smiling beams, indeed!
What kind of cabbages do you grow in the spring? I’m searching for a cabbage I can grow here in the spring, and I probably can’t use the same one, but you never know.
I have no idea which cabbage that was, John is in charge of brassicas, i shall check for you! I have found in the past though that the reds are very resilient.. c
Thanks, Cecilia. I’ll look into the red ones. The heat comes on so fast here many years that we have trouble even getting lettuce before it bolts, but I could plant the cabbages in February since they’re so hardy.
The beams are truly magnificent. What a find. They will definitely define the coupe in a most wondrous way Celi. I llove the little darlings catching the light in the bathroom window. Come on spring. V.
oh i agree and now we have more snow! c
Methinks you are really using your stage knowledge to create such an innovative ‘set’ within the coupe! The patina on those beams looks absolutely wonderful: what a ‘room divider’ they will be 🙂 !
The reclaimed beam are gorgeous. Thanks for saving them.
(And that pix with the metal trestle really made me smile – that’s a money shot if I ever saw one)
John was saying. what are you doing now? that is not an antique beam!.. c
I took the kids over the weekend to get new plants for our window garden, a couple of tomato plants, a couple of lettuce plants, strawberries and ofcourse herbs. It is so refreshing to watch things grow 🙂
A very fecund post – you won’t go short of food this year. I love the smiley faces on the beams. Had a lovely time yesterday meeting Tillybud in Carlisle,And I’m off in a minute to get my eyes tested, then to meet another (as yet unmet) blogger, Restless Jo for lunch and a visit to Northumberlandia. I’m still freezing, so she will be meeting Mrs Michelin Man.
Have a lovely day.
Vx
Beaming smiles for sure!
Does the dog not learn from being musked? Or did he rather enjoy it?
So encouraging to see these little seedlings reaching for the light.
I love your smiley trestle tables! The only tomato we have is one that has randomly sprouted in a plant pot over the winter. 😉