Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #15: Latest Changes to the Cabin
Nov 16/09 photos are posted here
Our Move #2: Replanting - Day One
We finally had a beautiful and warm day today. It was 63 degrees and gorgeous out! My 20 year old and I, with occasional help from my 11 year old were able to get 24 of the plants from my last house replanted. Tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful out again before the cold hits again so I placed some 3 dozen other plants so it will go smoother then. The plants were stored in our barn for the last two weeks and I guess some thought spring had arrived, they had new growth and some were buddi...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #14: It's getting closer!
June 16/09 Yes, indeed, it is getting closer to being completed! More than 4 years ago we began with something like this, as sold by Canadian Tire? The year after the frame was destroyed (within a month of purchase, due to high winds) our journey began for a replacement gazebo. First step: we built a deck floor and built a wooden frame on which we hung the screens, walls, and roof. The next year, the roof tore to shreds and we put up a tarp roof. That hung on for a while but...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #13: Eavestroughs
May 28/09 Last week, the weather forecasts predicted rain for this week. Having used my one rain barrel quite frequently this past week or two I wanted to get another rain barrel set up at the gazebo before the rain arrived – which would have been yesterday, sort of (turned out we were sitting on the edge of the rain and didn’t get much yesterday). On Saturday I went to the hardware store and purchased the eavestrough stuff so we could put it up on Sunday. We needed a 12R...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #12: This story is for Joey.
April 11, 2009 Today, even though it is sunny out, it is really quite chilly out. I decided that the gazebo (or as it is now known – “Joey’s Shanty”) would be the perfect place to sit and do some writing. The sun should have heated up the space as it is protected from the wind. I go to the “Shanty”, close the door and sit down. I then decide that it isn’t much warmer than outside so I might as well go back in the house and be comfortably warm! ...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #11: Ready for Santa
Dec. 7/08 Our gazebo continues to transform. Rick and I laugh when we sit inside our “cloth gazebo” that we purchased for a great price. What a deal we got. Yes, we used the cloth gazebo twice, before it’s twisted fate. The resurrection went from an added wooden floor, to a wooden frame, to wood/glass walls, and now to a wood roof. Our cheap gazebo has transformed in appearance as well as cost! Sheesh. Anyway, here is our latest version of our gazebo. (and yes, I k...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #7: Windows: Check
May 30, 2008 One step closer!! Last weekend Rick put one of the window’s on hinges so we could get a breeze going through the gazebo. Once I saw how easy that was I, of course, asked that all the main windows be put on hinges. Next, well, we had to keep the mosquitoes out so I had him make a screen for each of the windows, out of the original screen enclosure (glad we are still getting our money’s worth out of that purchase). So, I now have a screen door, with a glass ins...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #3: Final Walls
With a deadline of Dec. 29th as a motivator (the scheduled family bonfire breakfast) Rick and I put up wall #3 last weekend and 2/3rds of the final wall today – we have to wait for the door to arrive before we finish the wall. Everything (other than the 2×4’s) are leftover pieces from something or other, cut and nailed to fit. It’s nothing fancy or beautiful but it works. Wall 3At Rick’s work, they were throwing out a glass table top. He salvaged it and it b...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #2: Two Walls
Last weekend Rick and I transformed the north wall on our gazebo. We put three windows on the top half of the wall and left the bottom half solid. The idea for next year is to take the area out above the windows and put screen in them, with a drop-down shutter to cover them for the cold/rainy weather. This past weekend we did the west wall. Same process and same plans for the future. We now have half walls and half tarps (oh and we put another tarp over the roof to temporarily cover ...
Our Gazebo/ "Shanty" #1: The beginnings
A few years ago I purchased a garden tent at a year end sale for a great price. The roof had a middle section that provided an air vent and the sides were a tarp wall as well as a netting wall which provided multi-weathered facilities. About one month after we put it up, we had severe winds and the entire metal structure was twisted beyond usability and my great bargain was now useless. For a year, it sat unused waiting for its rebirth. Last summer we built a 12×12 deck and wooden ...
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