Maximo - I like the lil deck idea
It's got me thinking about getting a sofa table and shortening the legs to the window height, making a padded top for it that coordinates with my throw pillows, and building steps up to it. I love DIY projects and have a tool collection that most men would be jealous of & am pretty good at copying things, but I'm not real creative about coming up with ideas myself.
yorkietalkjilly - when you wrote you could hardly stand to look at "Jilly's Window" after you lost her, I had tears in my eyes. I was the same way. Ours was Chelsea's window and she passed away two years before I sold that house. As beautiful as the window & the view out it was, every time I looked at it, it made me sad that Chelsea was no longer with us. I'm glad we both now have new babies to love