Daddies Birds
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FRED - the garden | Posted:
Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:57 pm
For many years my Dad's hobby was woodworking. He started small and progressed to making some gorgeous pieces of furniture....two sets of speaker cabinets (not the small black box kind either) and a octagonal pedestal game table approx 5' in diameter that matched one set of speaker cabinets. I have that set of cabinets in the livingroom and can still make the windows next door rattle when I turn the volume up on a favorite piece of music :)...another of his loves was building radios and record players (before the days of stereo) so these cabinets are not just for pretty :)
Anyway, the small things he started on were birds in assorted sizes and shapes. When he passed in 1995, I found the box of birds in their shed and brought them home. I knew I wanted them out where I could enjoy them but had no idea where, so they sat in the box in my workroom closet. When I started gardening the idea of painting them and mounting them to a fence panel started to form, but that just never worked out either. Then I spotted this stand on the curb two houses down waiting for trashday. It was just too good to passup so on the night of my birthday in April, I sent Randy and my son-in-law down there to get it for me. Randy is used to my odd ball collection of stuff but Kenny was just dumbfounded.
This is the piece that we figure was used by the neighbors to hold pool equipment of some sort.
The stars and birdhouses I bought and painted to use as fillers with the birds.
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