We hadn't been in town on the weekends for a month now. Too busy at the farm! We along with several other couples grow a big garden at the 'hobby' farm which belongs to my wife's family. The farm is a quarter section near Paddockwood. We spend more and more time there every year and the garden keeps getting bigger and better. For us, good food is at the centre of a good life. But the garden is all in now and germination is well underway. Time to get busy with the elevator wood.
Most of the boards have been sitting outside for a number of years now and are in need of restoration. The first step was to pressure wash all the weathered grayness from them. I also needed to run some tests to see what finish would best bring out the original colour in the wood.
This used to be a 2 by 4 bracing board - before the grains of Saskatchewan washed over it.
It's really amazing what lies beneath the surface...
(before and after shots of an amazing grain sculpted board - Katherine Soule Blaser on the left)
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