Tiki Bar

Carol and I decided to get a canopy for our patio so we could spend more time outside on hot sunny, (Ha!) and the more likely, rainy days.

We found some 10' X 10” nylon canopies at Wal-Mart for $97.00, bought one and set it up over our patio furniture. Several weeks later they went on sale for $69.00. Oh well!

I saw a project on the Popular Mechanics web site for building a “Tiki Bar” and thought that it looked pretty cool, so I talked Carol into letting me partially enclose the canopy with roll-up blinds and make a bar for ice and drinks.

We found an old 78 RPM record cabinet at a yard sale that was the right height for the bar and I had salvaged a heat lamp table that I made for the restaurant years ago for the bar top.

We hung the blinds from the canopy frame and we now have a cozy enclosure that we can open or close when we want.

Global Warming, my a..!

Boy, here it is a few days away from April and we've been getting hammered with winter like storms. It can be bright sunshine and blue skies one minute and then things start to get dark, clouds move in and it'll either start raining, snowing or hailing. It's been getting down into the 30's at night and a cold wind blows in the daytime. A week ago we thought Spring was here, and so did the plants and trees which all are sprouting new buds. I guess that's what we get for trying to rush Mother Nature.