This time the kudos and hurrahs have to go to gentle husband Dan and his woodworking talent.
Dan has long dreamed of (and completed) various wood projects, and he's in his element now on the Ranch with many practical things to build (cabinet doors, wood storage shelves, etc. etc.) He has the time to create and build, and he's putting his many woodworking tools gathered over the years to good use.
Kudos to him for arriving at a point in Life where there is more 'doing' and less 'dreaming'!
Before Montana, Dan was traveling so much with work that he had little time to create.
From our past lifetimes, here's our solid cherry bed headboard that Dan built and we moved with to Montana:
Here's the deck he single-handedly built on our home in Ohio:
You get the feel.... good man, good building skills. And now the time to let his creative juices flow!
While hiking around on the hills, fields, and mountains on the Ranch, Dan came across a derelict antique wood stove left behind many years ago.
(This is actually a pretty common phenomenon in Montana- the hills are valleys are littered with carcases of old trucks, cars, tractors, farm implements, homesteads, and so on. Since it's high, dry country, the remains don't fall apart easily.) Dan salvaged the oven door and a couple of the hot plates on top and developed an idea.
The one bedroom guest house on the Ranch needed a new bed nightstand. It's a log cabin with western decor, and Dan decided to create a wooden ranch stove look-alike as a nightstand.
He used reclaimed wood from the Ranch, did some building, carving, and construction (along with Don, Dan's co-worker), and this is the end result:
What a neat, original idea! I love that man....... :)
It is sooo cool! Seriously - pretty awesome!
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