Although I've always been an avid knitter, I've never crocheted much beyond the occasional pot holder and some cat toys, and a few doll clothes as a child. But at the beginning of the Corona crisis I got sucked into following a daily knit-along-podcast by Scandinavian needlework desingers Arne & Carlos, and chose to do one of their granny square blankets instead of knitting, following one of their videos with an explanation how to crochet granny squares. (I'd been taught to do them in a totally wrong manner as a kid, and altwas thought they were rather difficult to do. *g* ) I already had the instructions in one of their books and  was able to order the wool online, and from then on did one square a day until about two weeks ago, and about two every three days since then. I need 80 squares and have done 61 by now, a few more than you can see in this stack of my crocheted squares. :o)

My first thought of "bed" was a vegetable bed, so I went looking for some pics taken at a medieval open air museum in Nykøbing, Denmark, where they had a lovely display:

I love this type! We have some similar ones of regular planks, without the short poles; I might make the n ext ones just like these. Very practical, too, for lawn mowing around and to keep slugs away.

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We're in the process of painting the facade of our house. The gable end was the last part we did; this pic was taken just after the scaffolding had been taken off. A small part couldn't be reached neither from the scaffolding nor by ladder as the scaffolding was in the way, so you can clearly see the pretty new coat of paint and how it looked before. ^^