Amazing sunset tonight.
Hunter had his high school graduation Friday evening June 9 from Baker Academy. We went to Bend Burger Company after for dinner. Saturday June 10 we had a graduation party at the house for family and friends.
Graduation party setup
Graduation Party
Graduation night
Over the last two months, I have been working on a backyard expansion. I started the first week of April and just finished (end of May).
Left (south) side of the back yard
Before: In 2018 we put in the first stage of the backyard in April of that year and I also built a garden off to the left side completed in June of that year. You can see what was left natural.
Here is the new expanded south side completed.
Right (North) side of the backyard
Before: We had a small rustic fire pit with log that got overgrown as you can see in the second picture
Here is the new right/north side of the backyard:
Some pictures of the project at various stages
Morning rainbow off the back deck today!
I have build and put up shelves in each of the kids rooms except PJ and he asked for some this spring.
I got a piece of cut juniper from a guy selling them on the side of the road near Sunriver for $20. I sanded it down, then cut it adding a light pre-stain and then polyurethane to bring out the color of the wood grain.
We used some shelf bars we have had from our first apartment in Huntington Beach after getting married.
PJ is super excited!
April 14. Mid April snow! It has actually snowed 3 days this week already.
More … April 16
We got some sourdough starter from our friend. Kelly has been feeding it. Last night I mixed up a batch, let it rest overnight and we baked it today in a dutch oven. It looks good, hopefully taste good as well :)
I got a set of wood carving knives for Christmas. I pulled some wood from the wood pile - Some old juniper fence rails that I cut up in the fall for firewood. Super dry as they were likely 30 + years old. I used a hatchet to split off some thinner pieces. The first one I carved was the spoon. From there I did the spatula a week later and today I tried a fork. The spoon came out of a different block of wood so it’s interesting how much darker it is than the other two that came out of the same block.
