Toby can’t stand painting! He likes the building and the constructing… but not the painting. Me, I love to paint! I don’t know if it’s the actual act of painting so much as the complete change in the feel of a house once there are colors on the walls! I think, next to actually moving [...]
Kaia is just getting to bed… she was out at the house helping us light our first fire in the new stove! But first, some pictures! The drywall is all up. They finished in a little over a day! New guys came out this morning to start the mudding! Unfortunately, the hangers left big piles [...]
I said I’d post pictures a week ago… and here we are. Well, in the past week all the dry wall has gone up. I was waiting for them to mud it before I took pictures, but I may take some and post ‘em anyway… We also have a 165 foot trench going from our [...]
We had great weather for our cordwood party today… low 60′s! And it is supposed to be like this all week. Unfortunately we weren’t able to finish like we had hoped we would. We had problems getting the lime mortar to the right consistency. It was too wet and mushy, no matter what we did. [...]
We ordered our wood stove! A Hearthstone ‘tribute’. It should be in this coming week! Woohoo! We debated between a locally made ‘Appalachian Stove’, which cost $1000 less than this one, and the tribute. But, in the end, the reviews, cool look of the soapstone, and the hefty construction of this stove won out with [...]
So, I’m hearing through the grape vine, that we don’t have enough house pictures for you picture mongers! Well then, here you go! We’ve been doing lots of little things, trying to get the house closed up. All but two of the windows are hung. The doors are in and the door knobs are set. [...]