Colin's table

As promised, here is Colin's table for the summer kitchen in back of the ranch house.  The former table (now kindling for the cook stove) predated Thomas Wright's work on the restoring of the log core of the ranch house in the early 1970's.  The old table was wobbly and in shreds, though still in use by Eric to produce delicious suppers in late July.

Solid, handsome, and immensely useful.  All cedar, and all from pieces milled by Norbert from ranch trees.   In addition to daily suppers, the new table has already supported the making of something like 30 jars of yellow-plum jam (Douglas and Colin as jam chefs), a dozen(?) of huckleberry jam, and 21 jars of canned pears (Julia and Meo).  Doco has hugely enjoyed working alongside Colin in the barn workshop, Colin on his table, Doco on his bookshelf, with the sometime help of Griffin and Alice.  Quite astonishing altogether.