A gift well placed

The first piece of art to be introduced into the garden shed was hung yesterday.

This was a gift from Bob's niece Martina and her husband Roger Duncan who took the photo many years ago while biking in Oregon. It is also significant because it graced Olga Morrow's room in assisted living and brought her much joy.

UCM and the orchard was a very special place for Olga and to have a circular reconnection is a wonderful gift. Thank you Roger.

BTW - Congratulations to Roger for his promotion to Chief! Way to go!

First Light Coffee

Regular readers of the UCM blog will recognize this camera angle from a post on July 31. Only this time there are walls and a floor and roof to go along with the porch decking where Lady Sylvia is sipping her morning coffee. This was our first pot of coffee on the new porch and the full on sun and the view down the valley is everything we hoped it would be.

Posse Brick Visit

The first honored guest to the UCM Posse Bricks of the Bandon Sidewalk Project came by to inspect her brick! Here Katja is taking a closer look! Her plant in the orchard is a Kiwi hence the Deutsche Kiwi.

The others shown here taking a closer look are the core UCM group,

General Lee (Best Dog in the World),
Queen Coda (Herder of Everything),
Sylvia Ernst (Kitechick v1.0),
and Cap'n Bob Morrow (Abbot).
We look forward to other photos of visitors in the future!

Small Town Fund Raisers

Good Fun this weekend with a variety of local events.

Here you see Sylvia and her sister Katja with Bob behind the wagon of cranberries. The idea is to guess the number of cranberries in the jar. Between the three of us our guesses ranged from 9541 to ~ 2704... Proceeds going to the Bandon Cranberry Festival. We will let you know!

The Friends of the Langlois Public Library concluded their annual silent auction, which was immediately followed by the dessert auction. The auctioneers were this couple who kept the energy light and humorous while draining wallets for berry crisps, apple pies, and oatmeal squares among other items. The UCM big purchase was 62 pounds of fresh lamb butchered in the field then dressed and wrapped ready to be placed in the freezer! Locals tell us this is the best way to obtain lamb. We tried some earlier and are looking forward to stuffing the freezer. Although the purchase that stuffed us and will most likely make us bigger was the berry crisp!
The calorie for cash preview on the deck of the Langlois Library!

Deutsche Kiwi Visitor from Singapore

A special visitor from the Southern Hemisphere is stopping at UCM this weekend, ostensibly to say hi to Sister Sylvia and New Brother in Law Bob... Rumor has it... the real motivation is the bounty of red tomatoes in the orchard! It does not seem mere coincidence that the timing of Katja's visit is three weeks later than last year when the tomatoes were not quite ripe... hmmmm...

On the way back from the North Bend Airport to UCM we toured Shore Acres Park and Cape Arago.

Interior Paint

Air Drying the shed before moving in the garden tools!

Finally the Painting is Done - Done... Except for the Final - Final touch-up from all the interior painting. So Inside and Out / Top to Bottom Penetral, Coopernall, Cabot's Oil, Cabot's Decking, Oil Primer, Verathane, Acrylic Floor Paint, Latex in Bunker Hill Green, Whetsone, Grey Primer, Simply Red, Base White, of course this is the second pile of cans, the first batch went to the dump weeks ago! Not bad for a 12 x 18 garden shed! I will not have to repaint when I am cruising down to the orchard on an ATV Senior Segway!

Fresh Paint!

The Garden Shed has been painted and is a beautiful sight as you walk down the path to the orchard!

We expect to have more than a few morning cups of coffee on the porch.

And when Agribon or fertilizer is needed the supplies are just outside the orchard gate.
Still have to paint the inside but it is tremendous to have such a wonderful structure for our garden care needs. Thank You Greg for all your efforts to make this structure so perfect!