Sharing our restoration journey of an 1890's homestead in the PNW!
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
Monday was the first day of Fall. Sounds crazy. I'm pretty sure yesterday was the first day of Summer. Regardless, the rain and cooler weather has been making me feel as cozy as Maverick here. We're putting the garden to bed - i.e. MIL (Mother-in-law) is letting the chickens and ducks roam free through the… Continue reading Fall Has Arrived
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
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
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…
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
I don't have a ton of new information regarding the chickens. The other morning I woke up in an absolute panic that I forgot to shut their coop, I rushed out to check on them only to realize that my in-laws are incredible people. We got home semi late and I went straight into the… Continue reading Chick Update!
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