Sharing our restoration journey of an 1890's homestead in the PNW!
Today marks one year that we've owned our little (soon to be) oasis. This beautiful gem of a property first showed up in our lives in mid June and, I kid you not, the moment I laid eyes on the Cabin I knew it was the one. Now, just to be fair, there were like… Continue reading One Year Later
I promise I'll post an update on the Cabin progress soon. First I wanted to share how the many, many plants have been doing and how the property has been shaping up throughout this summer. Here is an overwhelming amount of flower pictures as I haven't been keeping up on sharing: We finally had some… Continue reading Summertime at the Homestead
This week has been pretty busy. Heck, this year has been pretty busy. My husband has had a huge project going on at work for the past month, and now they are going to be moving the company to a new building in a few weeks to top it off! He's been pretty beat lately.… Continue reading Still Continuing the Lift!
This week I have a ton of flower pictures to share again; May is gorgeous around here. But we also did quite a bit of work, that doesn't look like a ton of work. We got the chicken run all fenced in - including some fishing net over the top to discourage the eagles. We… Continue reading The Lift Continued…
I think the chicks are officially chickens. They're 9 weeks old and are mostly weaned from the heat lamp - I'm still turning it on at night for them; but that stops this weekend! They also finally got their big run put in this past weekend and they are loving it. People tease me practically… Continue reading The Ladies
First of all, apologies for the neglect. I know you've been dying to hear what's going on, when in reality there's been a lack of updates due to the lack of updates :). On a positive note, there's been a ton of change in the foliage and what they say is true, April showers bring… Continue reading The Lift
We didn't get to do too much with the Cabin again this weekend, but that didn't keep us from being productive! We've learned that there is always more to be done around here! My father-in-law brought home a beautiful tractor and I was given the privilege of the maiden voyage running the tiller! I did… Continue reading Homestead Living
The great thing about being back in school is being back on the school schedule. You get more holidays - plus random days off for "faculty days" and such. And you get BREAKS. It's pretty awesome. This week was Spring Break and I got a whole week off! Only 5 more quarters to go!! This… Continue reading Spring Break!
So week two with the chicks included a couple of little scares for this brand new first time chick mama. We've been trying hard to keep handling the chicks as I've been told that it makes them friendlier adult chickens (and personally, I would like to have friendly chickens!). Before we get into that, here's… Continue reading Week Two with the Chicks
(Fair warning: it was a slow weekend in terms of work done and progress made on the Cabin) This weekend we didn't do a whole lot of work to the Cabin. Really, we spent a little time cleaning up the piles from the previous weekends and ended up spending more time mountain biking (and there… Continue reading Weekend Nine
The Homestead Journey 