Gardener

My blog has been comatose over the past four months and the reason is "The Fruited Plain." Let me explain. In late August, my daughter and her husband purchased a building on Main Street in Sioux Center and began the long process of gutting it and creating from the space a coffee shop/wine bar to be called "The Fruited Plain." And just like that, I had a job--volunteer laborer. Whatever needed to be done, I did or attempted to do along with a large number of volunteers. We tore out the old ceiling and the loose insulation--by the dumpster-full; we pulled nails out of old 2x4's reclaimed from the old stud-walls. We put up new studwalls and covered them with sheetrock--in some cases 4 layers of 3/4 inch drywall, 2 layers on either side (for a firewall). We mudded the joints and primed and painted and applied a clay like substance to the walls. We cut trenches for plumbing and elctricity in the cement floor. We removed old paint from the interior brick walls to cre