Aren’t those gray patches supposed to be there?

For almost a year now (since we started construction and put in the new windows and doors in the kitchen) we’ve had big gray areas on the walls of the house where everything was patched up. We’ve gotten so used to them we started to think it might look...

Smashing glass is hard work

Yesterday we posted about our recent success while working on the exterior base wall of the main house. Today we planned to plug a few holes where some of the bird housing used to be…and since we’d have plenty of mortar left over from those places, Stefan...

Cool showers aren’t fun

We had a heater repairman come out this morning because our water heater has slowly been getting colder and colder. When we bought the house almost a year ago, the water from the tap was warm enough t make a cup of instant cappuccino. We could easily shower for 30...
Now it’s getting somewhere good

Now it’s getting somewhere good

This weekend we worked ourselves hard again and managed to paint the entire chicken coop, brick out a hole in the wall leading to the outhouse and dungheap (which the dog loved to use when we first got this house and Ayla smelled just lovely after romping around in...

A new woodworking project coming up

If you read our houseblog, you probably saw that we were working on the chicken coop last weekend and made some progress is re-plastering the wall which was destroyed after years of exposure to chicken nitrates. This weekend we’ll be putting in a wooden tile...