さて、この庭の手入れをカミさんが先日始めた。まずウッドデッキの一部を撤去し、土起こしと樹木の植え込み、さらに不要に育った周囲の植物の整理までは地元の庭園業者さんに依頼した。植えたのはフェイジョア、柚子、ブルーベリーと実が成るものばかりなので、これは先々の楽しみ。そこから先はいろんな苗や土を買い込んで来て先週末に作業を始めたが、僕にはどうなっているかよく判らない。
こちらが仰せつかったのはウッドデッキのオイル塗装で、これはOsmoのワンコート・オンリーを使うことで合意している。今回は塗装面積もあるので、ネットで入念に調べた結果、価格的に一番安かったナチュラル・ペイントに発注したら、配送は早かった。昨日天気の良いうちにデッキを覆っている這松(?)の枝を大胆に切り、古くなったデッキの表面をサンダーし、試し塗りという感じで1/4くらいは塗り終えた。ワンコート・オンリーはぞうきん掛けのように薄く塗っていけばよいのだが、細かいところでは刷毛や養生テープなどが必要になるので、後日これは仕上げる。
Stormy wind and rain this morning. Because it is relatively close to the beach, the wind tends to blow strong here, but it was one or two steps up this morning and it looked violent. Evidently, everything in my garden was blown. I saw Karim Rashid’s OH Chairs (plastic and light) laying down a few meters away, and my favorite round table of driade MIRTO went out of the fence down to the road, and miserably broken completely. I have no idea how a table could fly such a distance!
My wife started the maintenance of this garden the other day. The heavy works such as removing part of wooden deck, rearranging the soil and planting some trees were done by a local gardener. The trees she chose were a feijoa, a yuzu citrus, and a couple of blueberries, all with the hopeful harvest of fruits some day. She then bought variety of young plants and soils, and worked on them in the weekend. I had no idea what they were.
The order I received from her was to repaint the wooden deck, and we agreed to use Osmo One Coat Only. I checked the Internet extensively and ordered the oil paint at Natural Paint shop that offered the best price, and their delivery was prompt. Yesterday, while the weather was nice, I cut some branches (of pinus pumila?) covering the deck aggressively, surfaced the old wood with sanding machine, and finished about a quarter of the entire deck space. You paint One Coat Only like wiping the surface with a cloth generally, but would also need a brush and masking tape for the fine line finish which I plan to continue at a later time.
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