Our Gazebo/ "shanty" / Cabin #14: It's getting closer!

Enchanting Palce of Dreams!
I love the exagerated overhangs . Reminds me of kindler, gentler times.

That big circluar window reminds me of a “porta”l.

bob

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

thanks Bob.

It is an interesting building, that’s for sure….. windows and wood have witnessed many things in their lives!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

It’s not a shanty. I wouldn’t call it a gazebo any more either.

A shed hardly seems fitting. I’ll have to think about it :D

I do not know what your son will call it, but I say it is amazing, gorgeous: I want it! It would look so good here!!

GREAT WORK!!
I am sure you will have many happy family gatherings in this Enchanting Palace of Dreams !!

Well said Bob!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

:)

I’m thinking “cabin”. How’s that fit??

(Welcome to my son, MrJoeP) :)

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

I’m thinking Prebin!

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

a what?

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

It looks like the club house I wish I had as a boy. Certainly come a long way from a store bought canopy. Pretty Spiffy.

-- Everyone needs someone irrationally committed to their future.

Can we call it Gertie? I think she needs a real name and not just “shed” or “cabin”.

Although I am leaning towards “cabin” or “The Summer House”. Yes it must be capitalized and said with a snooty air.

-- Former plant killer. Current plant damager.

I call it “Enchanted.”

Very nice Debbie. Your great- grandfather would be proud. Unless you screwed up his barn real good.

-- Karson retired in DE e-mail karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

There’s an Aunt Gertie on our family tree :)

the barn, sadly, is no more.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Its got character.

-- Dahlitsa

Looks cool to me. And I bet it is just that on those hot summer days.

-- jroot

If you became a midwife, and used it as a place of work, you could call it a “Birth-ah”.

Sorry, one of those days at work and the Aunt Gertie comment got me on a roll.

-- Zone 4a or 4b... depending on where you are standing!

Shanty NO MORE is right!!! I love it …. what character … eklectic … so inviting. Just beckons you to come on in and sit a spell. Got yourself a beauty there MsDeb!!! How proud are you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5

Amazing! The metamorphosis from canvas sunshade to this “Enchanted Palace”. It looks like every kid’s dream of a secret clubhouse. :-)

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

He called it a shanty before, no?

I think he’ll upgrade to “shack”, for sure.. ;)

Looking really good! :D

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Club house sounds cool. Mom :D

Bertha (Birth-ah) is my grandmother’s name! Another family tree reference. Pretty cool.

“The Club House” it is then :)
That sure is a long way from “shanty” :)

Good thing I didn’t finish that sign that said, “Joey’s Shanty” ;)
We could call it “Joey’s Clubhouse”—sounds like that is about 25 years too late in the making but better late than never, I guess haha

Now if I could just get you home for a visit …..

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

So MrJoeP, you are MsDeb’s BC son, eh? Welcome to GT. Bet you’ve heard all about the fun we have here. I have a son in BC too. He and his family live in Mission.
MsDeb, I think ‘The Clubhouse’ sounds perfect. I like the name Joey’s Clubhouse too…...........you know my younger son’s name is Joe too. 8^)

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

isn’t that interesting – we both have sons named Joe who live in BC….
this discussion has turned into a lot of coincidences (the reference to my Aunt Gertie and my Grandmother Bertha. )

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

I have to say, it’s downright purty, now.
And i like “the Clubhouse”.

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

It certainly has come a long way Debbie.It’s lookin kinda spiffy now.(lol) It sure has character.How could one not love it?

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

July 22/09

inside the “cottage” we have a couple birdhouses hanging. They were cheap ones I picked up at a store – one is a burger stand and one is a golf clubhouse. They are cute but not for outside, I don’t think. They’d just fade and fall apart.

Anyway, this morning, I went out to sit in the cottage, and then something caught my attention – there was a wren coming out of the burger stand birdhouse. He flew onto something else and looked at me (how dare I enter his domain!) and then he flew into the corner. I thought that he had become trapped in the cottage when someone left the door open. When I looked in the corner I found that one of the boards had fallen out during our last renovations, leaving a little gap to the outdoors.

While I was sitting there, he and his partner (or she and her partner) flew inside a couple of times but left just as quickly.

What an experience! Of course, at one point, last month, while trying to decide what to call our new structure it was joking called “an extreme birdhouse”. I guess the joke is now on us because at the moment that is exactly what it is!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

What a wonderfully unique structure you have created. The best things in life take lots of time, energy and creativity to create. I can see all those things going into such a beautifully and thoughtfully constructed product. An inspiration!

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

thanks :)

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

I went out to the cottage this morning – with my camera – and waited to get a picture of our little house guest, the wren.
Rick decided to peek inside the house (which was now a comfy nest) and as he was peeking in, somehow the bird came out and flew outside.
The little wren was not happy at the interruption and sat on the sunflower waiting for us to leave.

Rick left and I sat quietly inside waiting. I was hoping that the bird couldn’t count. Sure enough within a minute the little bird reappeared and climbed into his well-protected home.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

This is so awesome!
Beautiful pictures! Love the one on the sunflower!!!:-)

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

pretty unique, that’s for sure.
I just realized that it looks like he is placing an order! lol

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Hey Debbie,

I think he IS placing an order “One grub burger with flies, please.”

-- A weed is a plant that is growing where it was not purposefully placed by human hands.

hahaha ewwww lol
I didn’t get back in there today to get a better pix. I hope to get a similar shot except with a zoom lens. that will make it a little clearer.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan