We made an enormous amount of progress today – more than we ever could have imagined! Macky sent a contractor to us this morning which wrote about earlier…we were a bit concerned because Macky told us during one of our last conversations that it’s not possible for two people to hang drywall, especially on the […]

This morning we had made plans to sleep in a bit to recover from all the back breaking labor yesterday. However, at 8AM sharp the phone rang and it was Macky. He apologized profusely for not calling and not being there as promised and gave a few more details regarding his sister. Apparently the family […]

On our quest for tasks to tackle before Macky returns, we continued with demolition today. Our revised plans now include a built-in closet – however, this one is a bit different. The built-in closet will be created by taking in a “dead space” between the guest house and the barn, which thankfully is under the […]

We have talked about Jake’s Chair quite a few times on this blog, but so far there has been too much going on around here to take the time to actually build one. Now that construction of the guest house has kind of been on hold for the past two weeks we have finally decided […]

After this morning’s renovation depression it seems we are making a bit of headway. A trip to Hornbach and then on to Hagebau gave us enough supplies to continue with some of our projects not dependent on Macky and after just a few more hours of work we are feeling much better already. We began […]