River Song Sign

Last summer, while having a little happy hour from the back deck, we tossed around some ideas for a fitting name for this property.  Down the road there's Happy Hideaway, Forks Farm, and Starshine Ranch. Up the road there's Wind River Farm and Yachats Forest Farm.  There are others, I'm sure. Anyway, we came up with the name "River Song" as we listened to the burbling river accompanied by birds and the breeze in the trees.

Well, about eight months later, we have a sign.  Last fall, we bought a slab of myrtlewood from a shop in Reedsport. Then in the winter, we printed up some letters off of the computer to trace onto the wood, then I burned the letters into the wood with a little soldering pencil.  Last month, I varnished the the whole thing and made a frame to hang the sign from using old copper pipe that was left lying around the yard.  We thought the copper would tie in with the copper pipe railings that grace some of our trails.  On Sunday, I planted the structure in concrete, and Monday, we hung the sign.  It is subtle, and if the wood should darken, we'll probably have to paint the letters for a little more pop. Now we have to do something about that mailbox.

Daisy doing  a "balk" as Gail tried to walk her past the sign.