There is a lot to be said for best friends. I know that I have a bestie and we all know it’s Karen. I’m not sure when that happened it just seems like it was always that way from he beginning, Our friendship started in 1999 and has grown stronger by the years. Most of the time when you think of a best friend you think of women or at least I do. My husband and John are best friends to a point of getting on my nerves. I mean these two are a lot of trouble and seem to always escape getting caught!
On Sunday Greg got it in his head we needed a small table between two lounge chairs. I guess he forgot I had been asking him to build one for just that spot for over 6 months. All of the sudden it was his idea. He got into out pile of scrap lumber and pile of palettes and away he built. Just minutes into the build John appears in the back yard to give e his opinion on how it was going to be built. There was a lot of discussion and ideas flying around but sooner or later they had a plan.
Greg and I always keep our eyes open for scrap lumber. People toss it out in their Wednesday morning garbage. We often find palettes as well and even if we don’t need them we grab them up so when we do. If we wouldn’t have had this scrap lumber we would have gone to Lowes or Home Depot to purchase wood. Get a table for free is more fun than buy and building one. Greg would have never took the time to go to the store, that would have been way to much trouble.
After these two Blue Happy boys built the table they sat in the two lounge chairs and talked about what a great job they did. It really is a nice table, I do love it and they did a great job but I wasn’t gonna build them up any more. They seem to have that job done as well and boy were they full of themselves. After an hour or so they started telling me what I needed to do to finish it out. I was told to make a branding iron with the letter M and brand the top of the table and then put clear coat on it. Well boys not so fast I’ll do it the way I want it done. I agreed that it need to stay rustic so it would weather well in the Texas Heat but it needed a bit of refining. So out came the sander to make the top a bit smoother. I finished it off with dark ebony stain and then wiped it down so the wood grain showed through.
I think it’s so much fun to take left over wood or really anything and make something that you need. How cute this little table came out, well after I put my touch on it. I like rustic but not splitters in my elbows from being on the table. There will be lots of pool side sitting in these chairs at this table. By the way the chairs came from an estate sale for $17 for the pair another Blue Happy deal! I hope that you have a great hump day and it’s Blue Happy!!
