We seem to be stuck in this strange in between place. A half finished house. A house with three almost, but not quite, finished rooms. All bedrooms.
A house where the end seems to be in site and yet is not arriving.
I have unpacked everything I can and there are still boxes everywhere [...]
Dennis has been working on the railing for the stairs that go to the loft in the boy’s back bedroom.
It is turning out better than I ever could have imagined.
I say that not because I am some sort of puffed up over confident egotist. Although at times… well…nevermind. I say it because the [...]
The country doctor has been working on the roof of the barn since he came home from work on Friday night. This particular man may occasionally frustrate me for a multitude of reasons, but laziness is not among them.
He has been hauling both the long sheets of metal roofing and the pieces that fit [...]
Thanks you God for my in-laws, who are always willing to come for a visit, leaving behind their garden, and their comfortable home, to sleep in our lumpy guest bed, in our noisy house full of rowdy grand and help us with our crazy projects, bringing homemade bread and a helpful hand to do a [...]
Little Bit of Building…
Little Bit of Jigging…
Little bit more building…
Little Bit of Partying on the Porch
We decided to save some money and build the garage ourselves. Except that we aren’t calling it a garage – we call it the barn. I guess it is because it is as big as a barn.
And no, we didn’t build all of it ourselves. Dennis and his crew framed it. [...]
Our library has arrived.
I was at first, somewhat mystified.
Evidently, I overlooked the small box at the end of the order form that said…complete library.
Though everything seems to be in very good order, with plenty of nooks and whatnots, and bins and cubbies, and higglyjoints and sputknacks…it seems that it did not have any…
BOOKS!!
I sprang into [...]