Posted on 11/01/2025 5:46:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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The trailer is unloaded. After dealing with getting the Army table out of the trailer & into the shop, I don’t know how I managed to get it out of the generator shed & into the trailer in the first place.
That’s a beautiful table! I hope you can find a spring. There are a couple of people on the garden thread who seem to be very good at finding odd parts/things - maybe they could help.
Mom is very fond of the Army table. It is solid wood, 6’x 30” & very heavy. Dad got it at an Army surplus store early in their marriage and it was used for their dining room table until they could afford a dining room set. It’s been in various places/sheds & I wanted it for the shop. Now (somehow, because I wrangled it by myself) it’s here :-)
Lots of memories in those old tables. Comforting for me along with more than a few older things I still have. Like my mom’s original hope chest from the 40’s and her cabinet sewing machine that I learned to sew on. I refinished both and took the lock off the hope chest and found a lock business nearby that made a new key.
So, traction tomorrow, then? LOL!
Pitching hay and all the water-carrying I’m doing for the critters this week have me using muscles I don’t normally use. But it feels good to feel a little ‘burn’ - as long as my back holds up! :)
I keep some tomatoes in pots so I can bring them in for the winter. If I can keep them alive all winter, I can have tomatoes in March. The problem is killing the aphids. I have sprayed and even dipped the plants, but the aphids keep returning. It’s a constant fight to kill the spawn before they can mature enough to reproduce.
The problem with over-wintering plants that are out of sync and out of their desired environment IS dealing with the insects. Usually aphids and white flies. Fungal gnats, too. All tiny but persistent little buggers!
I read somewhere that when a plant is stressed, it gives off some sort of hormone or vibration and the bugs just come in droves to help it over ‘The Rainbow Bridge.’ ;)
And if you’re a houseplant lover, an aphid, white fly or fungal gnat infestation will effect every plant in your house.
Be careful out there, People! ;)
(’Hill Street Blues’ TV show)
Beautiful table! I was supposed to get Grandma’s kitchen table after Mom passed, but my brother is in the house now, and I haven’t the heart to tell him since (1) he’s using it, (2) it seems to go with the house, and (3) I’m not sure where I’d put it in my current home. Your table is more decorative, but yes, it was enameled, and one of my favorite pieces in Grandma’s kitchen. The rolls she rolled out on that table! 😍
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