Random Wednesday

64°f/17.8°C, cooler and cloudy with rain expected today. I sure hope that happens!

A few random pics today.

Cherries are getting close! We covered what we could reach. It looks ugly but maybe we can keep the birds out. The new tree we planted last year also has a few cherries on it.

My current project. A dog (not ours!) chewed the top and one side of this cabinet, so we replaced the top and used body filler to repair the side. It's now in the process of getting painted, white this time with a natural finish on the top. We picked this up at Goodwill for $2.99. I guess they thought it was not fixable.

I am painting it white because this black was the style a few years ago when everyone was into the "prim" decor, but now I have trouble moving black furniture. I am still planning on the distressed finish though.

The herb garden is all planted, but still needs a little mulch to finish it up.

This bank is planted with oregano as a ground cover, with some wild yarrow, red clover, daylights and asparagus that self-planted there. There are also black raspberries along the fence that I planted last year.

I let the wild daisies stay too.

A little miniature rose that made it through the winter. I have one that is 10 years old.

I can't remember the name of this plant. I put in two of them last year, and only this one survived. I really like it.

Coreopsis also self-seeds around here, which makes me quite happy!

The grape arbor that is in the herb garden, and drift roses, which I still need to trim to get rid of winter-kill.

Last night was open mic night, and I had agreed to be the guest host this time. We had a great evening with 10 performers, three of them spoken word, plus the featured artist. A local preacher joined us and read the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's inauguration speech, both fitting reminders for this Memorial Day weekend. 

This guy was passing through, on his way from Maryland to the Midwest, and found our event online, so he came and joined us. He did some fun rockabilly-style songs that invited singalong. His name was Dino Delray--- wonder if that was just his performance name?

The featured presenter was interesting but I couldn't understand a word of her songs! Beautiful voice but she needs to learn to enunciate, in my opinion. 

I always find it intriguing that most women tend to dress up when performing, while most men show up in whatever old thing. Why is that, I wonder? I did the same when I was storytelling, or even just doing workshops. 

Today is a much slower day. I did some watering since the rain has not yet appeared, did laundry, and tidied up in the cellar a little. It will soon be time for the annual cleanout, not a job I look forward to but necessary. The only other thing on my radar for today is to finish up the dresser I have nearly completedcx, and work on that cabinet above.

Larry is working on the fridge, again. That evaporator fan stopped working, again. We put in a new one Monday but it has already failed. Not sure if it was a defective unit or what, but it worked for a day and then quit. Fortunately these little fans are less than $20 and easily replaced, but we seem to have to do this every 6 months.  I ordered another one Monday and it should be here tomorrow. Time to be on the lookout for another fridge, I think. I hope it is just the fan and not some other issue right now.

Onward and upward! Stay well, friends.

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