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 the pile of waste) and laid […]

This summer hasn’t really been good to Ayla. She has had to go to the vet three times so far; once for her shots, another time for her sore shoulder and this time….suspected rat poison. We live on an old farm and the previous owner was a nut about putting out rat poison. Since we […]

With just over a week to go to our housewarming party, I am now in full speed ahead mode to get things accomplished around here. This morning I replanted our fig tree so that it has some space to grow finally and will retain a bit of water. I’ve moved it into the courtyard as […]

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 floor and painting the walls…all just in time for our […]

This week, one by one, I have been painting the doors in the house. I’ve completed most of the doors downstairs now but will probably have to do a second coat tomorrow on the living room door…which means tomorrow I get to start tackling the doors upstairs and the two wooden walls should we have […]