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...

    Adventures in stained concrete

    After reading my post about us planning to put down wood tiles in the chicken coop, my mom recommended we think about doing an acid stain on the concrete instead. Just the name alone sounds intimidating but it would likely turn out to be a must more economical option...