A learn birdhouse builder

HOBART, Wis. (WBAY) – Birds all around Northeast Wisconsin may possibly quickly have some environmentally friendly and gold households in which to fly.

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Merle Retzlaff at work making a single of his uniquely created birdhouses, which lately stand for a Packers theme.

Like those birds, a Hobart man’s interest has seriously taken flight.

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Following serving in Vietnam, and paying out 40 many years as a carpenter, Merle Retzlaff realized he desired some thing to hold himself hectic.

“People often say they want to retire, but if you retire with practically nothing, you lose all your that means in life, no one cares if you get up in the early morning and I really don’t really want to get a 2nd career, I can if I want but I’d relatively do something that I love,” states Retzlaff.

So instead of making properties, he turned to birdhouses, but not your ordinary ones.

“I assumed I want to do one thing various, not just a square one particular with a roof, and I just wished to make outrageous styles that men and women may like them and in some way they took off,” states Retzlaff.

About the past two decades, Retzlaff guesses he’s designed shut to 200 birdhouses, which he sells for $85.

“Especially about Christmastime simply because that’s when individuals purchase them for old persons like us,” says Retzlaff with a smile.

Every single a person requires Retzlaff two to three days to comprehensive, which includes him burning and wire brushing the wood, and applying a light-weight coat of stain and a few coats of varnish.

And these days, during the Packer Tremendous Bowl run, he’s shifted to inexperienced and gold birdhouses.

“I figured nicely that may sell mainly because of all the enthusiasts in town you know, so I thought properly, let’s give that a shot,” states Retzlaff.

It’s no shock they are in large demand.

But that doesn’t indicate Retzlaff has ideas to choose up his speed as well significantly.

“Here’s the superior matter, see when you do it at home you can come down, perform a very little little bit, then if you want to go searching, you go browsing, if you want to go up, acquire a nap, you choose a nap, I like naps, every single old man does,” suggests Retzlaff with a chuckle.

For much more information on Retzlaff’s birdhouses and how to purchase 1, pay a visit to https://www.fb.com/buppasbirdhouses

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