H.J. Ruiz – Avian101

The perfect weekend

The past weekend was perfect in every aspect for working outdoors. I can’t complaint at all about the weather – it was sunny, warm yet comfortable with a cool soothing breeze to make hard work be easy! I had several projects on my list.

• My first job was repairing the old birdhouse that was damaged. It took a while to repair the birdhouse because it’s old and weather deteriorated, plus it was covered with moss. It really needed a great deal of scraping, sanding, reinforcing all parts and of course restoring the broken roof.
  

  Repaired old birdhouse

  

  Fancy new birdhouse (Gift)

  The photo shows the birdhouse before I varnished it. I haven’t installed it yet, along with the fancy new  green birdhouse (Next project)

• I had two little birdhouses I bought unfinished, now they are painted with acrylic paint and clear varnish.
  

  

  

  

  

  I sketched a small plan for what I was going to do in case that you wonder about my project. I proceeded to install the two houses in the lower part of the backyard.

  

  One birdhouse had a visitor!

I had my entire lawn mowed and trimmed. At the end of the weekend I felt tired but very satisfied to have accomplished so many things I had planned to do such as going shopping, cutting the wood, digging holes for the posts, etc. But who’s complaining?

© HJ Ruiz – Avian101