Big (blue) Table

What do you do for a dining room table in a 20+ foot long dining room? You build one yourself, that's what you do!
By my very own little self, I designed, planned, and built a custom dining table to accommodate my extra-long dining room and extra-large family. We'd spent the last year debating our options for or newly-enlarged space; now that the floor was finally finished, the time had come to take action.
It was impossible to find an existing table that would have been long enough without having it custom-built. For the time, trouble, and expense of dealing with that, I figured I could make something myself for a whole lot less money. I based my design on this table from Pottery Barn that I liked. I would have had to buy two of the Pottery Barn tables ($$$$$) and pushed them up together to be long enough.
Not the best pics, but this table is just under 14 feet long, and can seat 18 people comfortably. I was going to leave the whole table in the same stained finish as the top, but as I got close to being finished with it, it just looked sooooo big and brown, so I did a distressed paint finish on the bottom. My house is finally starting to look like a real house again!

Squirrellicious

Since he was about five years old, Paul has wanted to go hunting. He made me promise him a long time ago that when he bagged his first animal, I would cook it for him. Well, my friends, that day has arrived. The hunter was victorious!
There was a good deal of deliberation, prior to the hunting trip, as to how the squirrel should be cooked if Paul was so lucky to actually bag one. Ideas such as Buffalo Squirrel Dip and Squirrel Smoothies were tossed around. Paul finally decided on Squirrel Marsala for his feast of triumph ( we are, after all, a higher class of redneck), which you see him preparing to dig into here. Five out of six kids declared it delicious; David and I abstained.