If your kids like watching helicopters fly overhead, I suggest a crop of hemp. Free airshows, Woot!!

I only made some suggestions to you about building the planters, Ken. If you're gonna do that with them, you'll need a completely different set of instructions. Call me. My friends from Mendocino just sent me info on a new helicopter-navigation-jamming app.

I thought I would throw this link up again. Its the curved cabinet build using the curvomatic thing.

Looking good!

Wow, thanks again for the link, Fred. It is awesome to see the step by step process of the build.

The guy has both the cool tools and the skills needed to weild them effectively.

Definitely fun and interesting to watch.

Cedar shake update - almost done, waiting on final trim board for the top row nail cover. I want a 1x6x16 to finish off the top edge, but they don't make those standard apparently. So I have placed a custom order for the board from 'the place where they make cedar' where I bought the shingles from. I could have put up 2 1x6x8's but I'm not in a rush and would prefer the clean look of a single trim board. BTW, this is all using eastern white cedar instead of the western red that Home Depot, Lowes etc... commonly sell. Here's a crappy bberry pic of the almost finished covering:

That looks great, Dan! You'll feel proud every time you pull in the driveway!

Thanks Mark, though as you can see the driveway needs some work too....old houses, the work and expenses never end, eh? (There, I just put a Canadian stereotype in text)

Dan, it really does look beautiful. Between the stone siding and the shakes, the overall effect is very elegant.