The Mack is back but the gate is not

by | Feb 6, 2007 | DIY

When I came back from the walk with Ayla this morning, I was very relieved to see Macky’s van outside. Hopefully he won’t take long to get everything wrapped up today and I know both hubby and I will be VERY happy to be able to use the new bathroom...

The wine cellar…

by | Feb 3, 2007 | DIY

There have been a lot of posts on our upstairs bathroom lately, and yes it is the biggest project currently going on at the farm, but I figure it’s time to post a little something about another future project . The wine cellar. The farm has an old cellar with a...

Getting on the roof

by | Feb 2, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home

I wasn’t really sure whether I wanted a record of this happening but apparently hubby’s been telling everyone about it anyway so I might as well.On Wednesday night, my husband decided we’d been without cable for long enough. For whatever reason, the...

The good news…and the bad

by | Jan 17, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home

Well it has been an interesting morning. The weather here today is grey on grey. It’s drizzling (better than sleeting or snowing, I know) and dark and I just want to go back to bed. Hubby has gotten home pretty late the last few nights because of his conference...

Snow and ice…in our freezer

by | Jan 16, 2007 | DIY, House & Home

After coming home from the farm today, I wasn’t quite prepared to start packing more boxes so I decided to do something that some would probably consider to be even more daunting…defrost the freezer that belongs to the landlord. Perhaps it was because I...

In with the new kitchen II

by | Jan 14, 2007 | DIY, House & Home

Well, we made another pretty huge dent today in the cabinets. The key to the process is just finding your flow and thankfully once you’ve built a couple, they’re all basically the same. We weren’t able to finish the tall cabinets still because we...