Replacing Broken Glass Frame

I purchased a vintage framed print for $4.00 at a thrift store. The original glass was broken. I wanted to keep the original frame so I took the artwork to a local glass store instead of a frame store. The glass store could take out the broken glass without damaging anything and replaced a new glass(41"W x 17"H) for $20.00. It was much better deal than reframing at a frame store. I am very happy with the result.

Foothills Animal Shelter

I have been visiting the Foothills Animal Shelter for several months.
The new building is a very nice shelter for cats and dogs and other small animals who are waiting for a new home.
Especially, I love spending a time at the cats adoption corner. All cats are so daring, and actually, I can get a chance to socialize with some cats in person. Every time when I visit the cats, I feel so recharged with happy feeling.
And also, it's a great place to know there are so dedicated volunteers who work for saving animals and sharing their love.

Foothills Animal Shelter
http://www.foothillsanimalshelter.org
Hours and LocationFoothills Animal Shelter is open to the public:
Monday – Friday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Address: 580 McIntyre Street, Golden, CO, 80228
Phone: 303.278.7575

Pine Trees, Great Drough Resistant Trees

I have noticed that pine trees in my garden has been thriving very well for these dry days.

Waiting for Rain

Since I live near to the mountains, the weather here is very dynamic.
Suddenly, it gets so windy like storm is coming, and dark clouds appear in the sky.
I think it is a sign that the season will change from summer to fall soon.

What disappointed us when we had the dark clouds shown above 2 or 3 days before was the clouds didn't drop rain in our area.
The dark clouds disappeard very soon and we had sunny blue sky again.

We haven't had rain for a long time and my garden has been way too dry.

Hope, we will have rain soon!

New Bird Bath

A new bird bath for my back yard.

It was a surprise that I had a very hard time to find a new bird bath available near to my house.
Before, Home Depot, Lowe's, and other garden stores had many selections of garden statues, but not any more.
I was lucky that I could purchase the new bird bath shown above at Garden Country in Broomfield, Colorado.
Garden Country was a very nice store with wide selections of flowers, trees, and other garden items.
Besides, the store people were very friendly and helpful.

Garden Country:
4181 West 120th
Broomfield, CO 80020
(303) 466-6761.

Homemade Pesto

How is your summer garden?

My basils have been doing very well.
I made pesto with basil leaves harvested from my garden twice so far.
They were so yummy!

The recipe is as follows:
4 cups of basil leaves.
1 cup Parmesan cheese
3/4 cup walnut
2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp kosher salt
3/4 cup olive oil.

Hope you can get a chance to taste fresh pesto, too!

Specially Designed Bunk Bed

In my recent trip to Japan, I saw cleaver ways to utilize small spaces. This is one of the idea I came across.

(1) The Benefit of The Specially Designed Bunk Bed
In a case two persons have to share a room with a bunk bed, this specially designed bunk bed will be set in the middle of the room instead of against the wall in order to divide the one room into two small areas. This will give the two occupants more a sense of privacy.

(2) The design of The Bunk Bed
The lower bed will have a wooden sliding 3 (or any numbers work well)panels door on one side and will be open the other.
The top bed will have the same configuration except the sliding panels door on the opposite side as compared to the lower bed.

(3) When one moves out of the room, the bed can be pushed against the wall and the top bed can be used as a storage.

I hope you find this idea interesting!