A Corner Table With a View Please

Part of our original plan for the house included a built in bench with storage and a small table in the kitchen. Otherwise one corner could end up being wasted space. Hey, corners are people too. 

There is room for small dining table between the island and the living room, if the furniture is placed correctly, but all Odie needs is something small.

After the cabinets were installed last summer, I took the Green Machine material hauling apparatus and purchased the material.

I framed the benches with 2x4's and then skinned them with the extra shiplap I had made for the ceiling.

I made the seats out of plywood and put them on piano hinges to open up the benches for storage.

Here is Kelly Jo and Lisa trying the bench out with a plywood table.😀

It became the "eating place" in the house pretty quick.

Pastor Scott Morris makes super great looking Farmhouse type tables and I asked him last year if he would make a custom table for Odie that would fit in this spot. He came up with a great design perfect for the space. It is well built!

He presented it to Odie last spring when we were down there in Mississippi.

I strapped it down in the tent trailer and eventually it finally arrived in Ohio.

Kelly's Dad painted the table with the white and blue cabinet colors Odie had chosen and it looks fabulous!

Odie has access to the table in her wheel chair from the side or from the end.

Before the table was painted we covered the unfinished wood with cardboard and later pieces of the vinyl flooring. That allowed us to east many, many meals at the table without staining the wood with salsa!

We shared some more salsa at Odie's table last night for supper! So good!

Thank you for taking time to stop by today.

Davy

Vintage View Vednesday Washington DC 2004

We were recently on vacation so as I began looking through the archives for this Vintage View Vednesday these pictures from a short vacation in 2004 caught my attention. These are from June 2004 in Washington, D.C., our nations capital.

We were making a revival loop through northern Virginia so we planned a few months ahead to meet my brother Steve and his family for about three days.

Steve had been there when he was in high school so he was put in charge of the itinerary. I took charge of the campground locating service. That was easier said than done because decent campgrounds with spots big enough for our trailer at the time in the DC area are about as rare as hens teeth.

We made reservations at the only game in town and the trip was set! We were in our trailer, Steve, Karen and their kids were in a tent and we took public transportation into town every day.

We commenced to having three great days of fun mostly walking around to the absolutely awesome sights in our nations capital. There is no way to cover even a portion of "must see" things in three days, but we had a blast trying to see as much as possible.

One of the highlights for me was the World War II memorial which was newly opened then. We went during the day and went back at night. It was tremendously moving to me. 

That visit was the beginning of me learning a lot more about the contributions of the greatest generation of Americans. I try to visit the WWII memorial every time I visit DC now.

It is true that we have been back to Washington D.C. since then, but we have never had as much fun there as we had those few days. I may be ready for another vacation soon!

I hope you enjoy the Vintage View pictures.

Davy