So we wanted an umbrella stand in the back which we could move around as needed. The heavy metal or concrete ones are $80 (that's dollars!!) so we resorted to strapping it to whatever was handy. Then Daf found an old wooden cable spool in someone's yard, paid them 100 pesos ($10 dollars), painted it up purdy like, put a few tiles on top and.........
Voila!!!!! A sturdy moveable umbrella holder!!! You will notice the clever use of pvc pipe to hold the pole in place, but I am going to cut a really long piece of it so the pvc will go all the way up to the handle. Will be even more sturdy in the wind, and will look better.
Miki's project this last week was to refinish the wooden counter/bar in the kitchen. Some day we would love to have it tiled, along with that little shelf on the back wall, but the original wood was looking very tired.
She sanded the whole thing down (we brought a sander in our luggage this time), and put on 2 good coats of marine paint in a Coco colour. We would have loved a bright blue, but marine paint down here only comes in wood tones.....weird, eh? Anyway, it looks lovely, and has a little centre piece of white tiles to set off the dark wood!
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