This sight was first started to promote Salsa that I was making. Until I learned of all the red tape it took to produce, make and sell your own home made salsa. I will post some of my recipes at a later date.
I have built hundreds of birdhouses and sometimes a dozen or more of the same pattern and somehow they all come out different because of knot grains or wood patterns and thickness and type of wood used, sort of like my Salsa that comes out different every batch I make!
But first I want to tell you the tale of two birdhouses . . .
The first birdhouse was made by my daughter Jessica or should I say assembled during a camping trip with the youth group from the school she attended in 2004. I purchased the wood, cut all the pieces for approximately a dozen bird houses. It was to be part of a craft project during the camping trip. The one in the photo is the one that Jessica assembled and painted during that camping trip. Her Grandmother loved the bird house so much that we put it on a pole in her garden. Just recently I noticed the top had become warped and almost ready to fall off because we used only tiny nails along with a little glue to assemble them with. I took it off the pole and into the shop and dis-assembled, re-nailed and re-glued and returned it to it's prominent place in Grandma's Garden. Where you can observe as you drive up their driveway.
The second birdhouse has a much longer history. It was found by Jessica's Grandmother and I at her Mother and Father's homestead, which would be Jessica's Great Grandparents. At one time Blue Birds apparently became scarce and the government actually gave farmers birdhouses or the plans to build more to encourage Blue Birds to settle around their farm. I believe this bird house was made by Jessica's Great Grandfather Joe B. approximately 50 years ago. I removed the birdhouse from the tree intact and we took it to Peggy's (Jessica's Grandmother) home and placed it on a tree where Peggy could observe it during the day from her kitchen window. For many years she has enjoyed watching the Blue Birds making their nest and raising their young in this birdhouse.
As with the first birdhouse, this one recently deteriorated enough that I had to put a new back and slide on the bottom where you clean the house out. It too has been re-installed on the tree and hopefully it too will be enjoyed for many years to come by my Grandchildren.
Bluebird House found at Old home place in Sugar Valley, Georgia
I have built hundreds of birdhouses and sometimes a dozen or more of the same pattern and somehow they all come out different because of knot grains or wood patterns and thickness and type of wood used, sort of like my Salsa that comes out different every batch I make!
But first I want to tell you the tale of two birdhouses . . .
The first birdhouse was made by my daughter Jessica or should I say assembled during a camping trip with the youth group from the school she attended in 2004. I purchased the wood, cut all the pieces for approximately a dozen bird houses. It was to be part of a craft project during the camping trip. The one in the photo is the one that Jessica assembled and painted during that camping trip. Her Grandmother loved the bird house so much that we put it on a pole in her garden. Just recently I noticed the top had become warped and almost ready to fall off because we used only tiny nails along with a little glue to assemble them with. I took it off the pole and into the shop and dis-assembled, re-nailed and re-glued and returned it to it's prominent place in Grandma's Garden. Where you can observe as you drive up their driveway.
The second birdhouse has a much longer history. It was found by Jessica's Grandmother and I at her Mother and Father's homestead, which would be Jessica's Great Grandparents. At one time Blue Birds apparently became scarce and the government actually gave farmers birdhouses or the plans to build more to encourage Blue Birds to settle around their farm. I believe this bird house was made by Jessica's Great Grandfather Joe B. approximately 50 years ago. I removed the birdhouse from the tree intact and we took it to Peggy's (Jessica's Grandmother) home and placed it on a tree where Peggy could observe it during the day from her kitchen window. For many years she has enjoyed watching the Blue Birds making their nest and raising their young in this birdhouse.
As with the first birdhouse, this one recently deteriorated enough that I had to put a new back and slide on the bottom where you clean the house out. It too has been re-installed on the tree and hopefully it too will be enjoyed for many years to come by my Grandchildren.
Bluebird House found at Old home place in Sugar Valley, Georgia