Sharing our restoration journey of an 1890's homestead in the PNW!
Eleven work weekends until the move in deadline! Last weekend we (mostly Husband and our buddy A) got ALL our sub-floor water lines in! We also finished the plumbing - got it all glued together and hung at the proper grade. We started with finishing up the plumbing and honestly it didn’t take as long… Continue reading Eleven
Maybe this isn't such a great idea, but I'm counting down the weekends until June 1st (our current -fingers crossed- move in date). Maybe it'll put too much pressure on us. Maybe it'll just be another let down when summer comes and we're nowhere near where we hoped we would be. Or maybe it'll keep… Continue reading Twelve
The past two months have flown by since we got home from New Zealand. And we haven't been entirely productive on the Cabin. We're wasting valuable time. I get done with school at the end of June, and will hopefully have a job before then or very soon after. At that point, I am just… Continue reading February
I love snow. I love how quiet it makes the world. And how it makes everything so beautiful and soft. And that it feels like the holidays. And that it's terrifying to travel in so that even a trip to the grocery store feels like an adventure. We actually got snowed in for a week… Continue reading Snow
I remember thinking last year that we were having absolutely gorgeous weather for October. I have a few pictures that look like it's August, but are dated October (and I'm sure it wasn't August heat!). We got lucky enough to see some of that same October sunshine this year, with close to half the month… Continue reading Gorgeous Octobers
Despite my best intentions, I have been doing a very poor job at updating weekly! The past couple of weekends were full of fun and exciting progress, though with the inevitable oncoming rainy season of the PNW, the progress can't seem to come fast enough. The weekend before last we started with finishing up our… Continue reading French Doors, French Drains, and Crawl Spaces
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
First of all, let me apologize for the long absence. We've been awful busy out here! I'll start by sharing on our recent additions to the homestead, as of June 10, we've got two little baby barn kittens! We'd been searching for some barn kittens; as I'm sure you can imagine, living in the middle… Continue reading Kittens
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…
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