Octopus Bench!

Lover is a craftsman. After his parents found two iron bench ends at a tag sale, he decided to make them into a bench of my liking and present it to me on my birthday.

Using a C&C router, he etched images of some of my favorite things into the wood he had carefully picked out.

Here's an octopus (because we share a love for cephalopods):

And, if you look closely at the picture below, you may be able to see the honeybee and the earthworm that are etched into the back boards. (Honeybees because I want to get into beekeeping, and earthworms because I am constantly collecting them to put into my raised vegetable bed.)

It's going out on our deck by the firepit and potted veggies. Isn't it fabulous?