This Olde Tree

I haven't been in a place to work on building my love of qualiry rustic furniture for a long time ...until now. I've relocated myself to an acreage south of Duncan with a big shop space and a cute little house and look forward to getting prolific with my builds! I have a huge collection of old and reclaimed cedar and clear 3" fir slabs cured for over 20 years! Here are a few recent builds and couldn't resist using that big timber for the bench so just made it because so if you are in the market for a heavy gift for a loved one give me a call!

Actually messenger would be best. The area i live in has virtually no cell service and is off grid so while I build out my solar array and fire up the genny to help charge the batteries im using more old school hand tools and actually enjoy some of these old treasures. I need to drive about 8 minutes which I do once a day to get messages, texts and voicemails. Hope you are all well.

a couple of end tables and a coffee table made from an old garage and fence. Fir and cedar

:( were Making catios and enclosed porches in Victoria so if you read this and decide your in the market message one of us now!!

*WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO*

This June, we decided to do our own month-long version of WildCare's "Caught by Cats" photo project to show the damage that cats cause to our wildlife when humans allow them to roam. Every animal in this photograph died or was euthanized due to the damage caused in an interaction with a domestic cat in June.

Last month, we took in 531 patients. Of those, 77 of those were confirmed cat attacks (many more were suspected cat attacks). CONFIRMED cat attacks accounted for nearly 15% of intakes - on par with our annual average.

Of those 77, only 17 survived their injuries. Even with surgical intervention and antibiotics, only about 1 in 4 cat attacked patients will survive. This means 60 patients that received the highest quality veterinary care at our hospital still lost their lives due to a completely preventable human-caused issue.

Make sure you understand that this is not a "cat" problem and anti-cat comments will not be tolerated. This is a HUMAN problem. Humans allowed cats to roam and continue to allow their pet cats outdoors to kill wildlife, spread diseases, and struggle to survive. Cats are a domestic species, not a native predator. They require human care and leaving them outdoors to suffer is an animal welfare issue. Outdoors, these domestics are at great risk from predators, poisons, gunshots, vehicle collisions, weather, and disease.

Please, for the safety of both your cat AND our native wildlife, keep your pet cats inside. Provide them with enrichment indoors, take them for walks on a leash, or build them a catio or enclosed porch so they can safely enjoy the outdoors.

The destruction of wildlife and the environment by domestic cats is a human-caused issue that will require large-scale management to improve. This is a human-caused problem and we must all do our part to correct it.

How about a squirrel feeder? Ready to mount made from red cedar $45

A couple of recent tables

Cat lovers!
Here's a call I wouldn't have foreseen.
This fantastic couple have a senior cat who isnt able to get in and out of the bathtub as readily as she used to and they thought a custom set of stairs would do the trick. The first set had steps that were just a little too small. Kitty just couldn't' quite make the steps going down so a rethink and rebuild got them just right as we see here. Thank you Kari and Tony!

It's getting to be that time of year when the hungry deer decide its a lot of fun to compete with you for your hard fought food gardedns

Here I am just starting to fill in between the posts with cedar and heavy wire mesh to the 4'6 mark and then to the 7' top tomorrow. Deer can jump 7' so anything less is a short term only fix. This bad boy in oak bay will keeo the deer at bay for 50 years

Old fence. New life. Here are a couple of floating shelves made from an old cedar fence I just replaced with new cedar. I salvaged the old growth pieces that were still solid and dried., glued, screwed, sanded and sanded and sanded before two coats of satin varathane then installation.

Just finished this custom planter for another lovely customer!! For all your planter needs contact us!