Our 15 yr old grandson from Denver is staying with us for 5 weeks. In addition to helping ship hogs, powerwashing, working calves (YES, he's saving for a car to drive so he'll do anything for $$) I've started a "paying cash" list that includes vac'ing the pond, clipping trees & grass at our park, hauling mom's old satelite dish home to convert to a sandbox gazebo, AND getting the corn crib set up!!!!

FYI, Here's my post from last year on the Landscaping Forum--OMG, who'd thunk it actually belonged in the Garden Junk Forum:

#1-I am wanting to convert an old wire corn crib into a gazebo for our garden area. Does anyone have any ideas and or pictures of a project such as this? Great ideas are abounding on this web site.

#2-WOW, you get the "green thumb" of the week! Thanks for posting the picture. We've located a wire crib like the one in the pic but still has the roof on it. In our plans is the crib being set over a tree (dead and pruned to about 10' tall) and putting the electrical outlets and lights on/in the tree. Believe it or not, my sweetie-pie husband is going to pour a concrete footing ledge for the crib to set on. Of course this is done AFTER crops are in, hogs are shipped, etc, etc, etc.

AND, guess what - I think calicocat1967 just volunteered to help! Thanks Kim...

pics at http://www.themustardseedinc.com/corncrib.htm

around May 08 Cottage Living, a picture of one

on GW Landscape Design, one under title of "venetian blinds"

Our crib doesn't have the iron posts, all wire. We plan on attaching it to our raised deck and putting in a floor that's attached to the tree. The "lower" level will be made into a sand box (with a closeable door to keep out farm cats, coons, skunks, etc out of the fun!) Now that I think about it, it will probably resemble a big bird-brain house! (and our farm is like a zoo at times :-)

Yuh, our neighbors are already used to our "recycling to decorate" activities. I just wish they'd schedule their drop-in-visits to when we need that couple of extra hands!

I'll keep ya all posted on the July progress (grandson leaves August 6th so that's the deadline).

I still need to stop by after work.......look forward to seeing everything.

Kim