It’s been really quiet from our side

    Oct 16, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home

    So, many of you have been wondering where we’ve been since our posts just dropped off. As you might have guessed, we haven’t been working on the farm but instead have been fighting off colds and recuperating from the work we did last week After finishing...

    Not much progress today

    Oct 8, 2007 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home

    This morning we had to track down a package from LL Bean (a company which we really love) and unfortunately had to spend two hours in the customs office while they held our package hostage. FedEx has had the package for a month now and was actually going to ship the...

    New toys for the woodworking shop

    Oct 2, 2007 | Homesteading Life

    There was a high chance of rain in the forecast today so we decided to try out Jake’s chairs finally and use it as a sort of test project. We have big plans to construct the bedroom furniture in our guest house so we wanted to start with something not so huge to...

    A scavenger’s delight!

    Sep 10, 2007 | Homesteading Life

    Today is the local large trash pickup day which means that a lot of our neighbors piled up all sorts of furniture, beds, bits of building materials and anything else they no longer wanted on the streets last night so everything could be picked up this morning. Since...

    The neighbors lose some charm…

    Sep 6, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home

    Over the past week, we have been watching as our neighbors slowly but surely cover up half of the timber frame beams which face the alley running beside our house. It was a pretty cute house although they have done lots of modern improvement to it over the years (and...