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”
Smiling Beams will start anyone’s day off right.
It is cute isn’t it!.. morning.. c
Wish I could email you some of the Cape Town heat, it was 35C+ on Monday. Really enjoy your blog fascinating to read about your lifestyle and weather on the other side of the world.
Gosh, you’ve been busy with your potting. Looks to be very successful. Those beams will look wonderful in the Coupe and the face on the trestles looks like a character out of “Toy Story”.
John does most of the seed starting.. things are really starting to wind up now! c
Those beams look great.. and I love the “smile”.. plants looking good, hope spring comes soon…
I really hope so too!! Really i do.. c
Good morning Celi Fantastic post . the purple peppers are going to be great i just got a little spot for taters an onions plowed and tilled this will be the first garden at the new place it will need all the prayers and fertilizer it can get . and praise to GOD for the full cow water trough. an answer to prayer; literally! have a great day SAINTS
Hi Celi! Just love how your plants are growing! I learned how to make terrariums from recycle gallon milk containers a friend gave us, so we can plant inside them (in newspaper cups, 6 plants to each gallon), tape them up and set them outside in the garden to germinate and grow until the last frost and until they are big enough to pop into the garden beds. Very exciting! We’re already salivating over eating our own garden vegetable again soon!!!
Lovely, lovely beams with such character and what a great idea for their use. Also, I do not remember ever hearing previously of John’s workshop. You must show, and tell us, more.
I have not thought of Jonathon Livingston Seagull in years, since the 1970s.
Eau de Skunk-on-the-Ton. Sounds very Anglo-Frankish with cafes along the river bank. Good morning to each and everyone of you, including you, c., and happy days here in Sussex for we have a hint of sunshine warming 10cm of fresh snow overnight. Geeze. Give me strength to endure this mad weather ….
How lovely! We have a Forrest of sprouts as well. Such a great contrast to the dreary rain outside, and a promising start to look forward to Spring harvesting! Hope you have a wonderful day, too!
Good, old, solid wood. Such a beautiful thing. i’m looking forward to seeing them after all that TLC!
Christine
LOVE the tomato 😀
Those beams will look fantastic , once you get them cleaned up a bit. I won’t be planting any seeds for a couple weeks yet. I’m hoping for 2 dry days so that I can get out and clean the flower beds. A sunny day today would be a big help. I’ve not seen our resident skunk family yet but they’re here, somewhere. i hope Max doesn’t find them this year.
Enjoy the day, Celi!
Polished beams, smiling trestles, purple jalapenos, and JLS to boot. Your post is brightening my morning so nicely, thank you.
Whoa! That whole post smacks of spring. The beams are exciting but the sight of those lovely wee plants makes my heart soar in hope and anticipation!
I noticed the ‘smile’ right off! The house will be blessed right from the start with smiles and happiness!
Linda
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