Inspiration Point

Inspiration can strike in the strangest of ways, at the strangest of times!! For instance, on my walk this morning. It started out routine enough. But on my second to last lap, this junkyard haven caught my attention. And by the time I was on my last lap, I had a plan formulated in my curled head! This was the scene that inspired my latest project. Do you see it??

THE inspiration?? Look a little closer. . .

That antiquated slipper slide!?!
I've passed it a million times on my walks around our property over the last 12 years. I've looked at it half a million times, thinking it was such a cute old thing. But this morning, it caught me off guard!! The story starts a little like this. I brought home a couple (OK, 3) of honeysuckle plants two years ago from a clearance sale (you know, if it's on sale, we should buy 2, at least!). I planted them and they insist on growing (which was the original plan). However, I have been perplexed as to what to use to trellis them. I have thought and thought. I have drawn Jeremy picture after picture, trying to design EXACTLY what I need. He wanted plastic trellis leftover from our deck--I wanted cedar posts from the pasture. Finally, last weekend we compromised on pine 2 X 4's that he had leftover from some project. I scratched out a couple designs on some cardboard box in his shop, and we came to a conclusion. We were all but ready to put something together, when a customer showed up and then the moon came up.
Why did that happen?? Because today I was hit with a blessed idea from above.
I ran the idea across J, who was finishing with his race car repair. His reply was "fantastic" (maybe a little sarcastic--but I didn't listen well enough to discern that--I was excited!)
Grant and I got the tractor and J helped us pick the old slipper slide up--it was staked down to survive a tornado!
I told you!! That thing was clamped to a post and staked into the ground 2 1/2 feet!

We hauled it to the shop, where Grant got his first lesson in torch cutting and welding. (so tonight he told me he plans on being a welder when he grows up--but that's another story!)

Quick check on how these two were doing with dessert (not too well, the child refuses to read, so the marble brownies actually turned out all one color, since all the ingredients went in at the same time--you can lead a horse to water, right??)

Then back to the project, Grant had hauled the slide out to my south garden, right next to the driveway.

Look at that ancient wood step and the old green paint!!

I'm still so excited about this that I'm beside myself--take a deep smell of that yummy little blossom!! A little jute twine to hold everything up. . .And. . .

I think it worked out perfectly!!

Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart.

He's pretty amazing like that!!

And to think, He was interested in some silly little thing like a trellis??

Hope you can find some time today to count ALL your blessings. .big and little!!

It does a heart good!!