One million little things

As almost anyone who has ever owned a house (old or new) can tell you, it seems that there is a never ending list of things to do…and we are definitely no different. But it seems that each To Do List we compose ends up with a To Do List of its own. It’s a...

The greenhouse is FINALLY finished

Ok, so there are still a few small tasks to complete like building potting benches and we have to construct the upper windows still and attach those…but for all intent and purposes, the greenhouse is finished. We can move things in there if we want, especially...

You started to think it wouldn’t make it?

We’ve been busy, to say the least. Unfortunately not everything that has kept us busy has been related to the garden, farm or our self-reliant ways…but you have to pay the bills somehow :)We FINALLY finished the greenhouse this weekend. Well, we still need...

When will we ever finish the garden?

We have been spending a lot of time out back, behind the barn, in our vegetable garden lately and quite frankly we are beginning to miss working on the house. This weekend we have made good progress on the greenhouse, finally finishing all of the framing. Now all we...

Building a greenhouse (part 3)

Today we where finally able to continue work on the greenhouse. And although we had some starting problems with the roof trusses not fitting we managed to completely frame out the entire greenhouse.When we had left off, we had completed the base and the two sidewalls...