A crappy afternoon So we’re in the middle of this horrible project to slightly (ever so slightly!)raise up the back of the house and replace the rotten beam that has been sitting on dirt for 80 years. I’ll go into all of that later, but you can see from the photo, that is has been […]
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We didn’t realize how lucky we were to have access to irrigation water. For those of us from the ‘burbs.. irrigation water is COMPLETELY separate from water you get from your well. In our past life, we watered our plants with the same water we drank, and we paid a water bill monthly. But we
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Our Christmas morning was the perfect, “Welcome to Farm-life” type of morning. Luckily the boys didn’t wake up super early, and the baby slept until 6am, so we were enjoying a relatively slow morning getting out to the tree, making some coffee and digging into our stockings, when Matt glanced outside to take in our
Downsizing our house has been a bit of a challenge for all of us. From a four-bedroom/3 bathroom to a two bedroom/one bathroom. It was something we discussed at length before we even walked the house the first time. I remember sitting in our downstairs office, studying each picture of the home on the realtor.com
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It was no surprise that the laundry room left much to be desired. Outdoor; no door; rock wall. From the cushy, heated, upstairs laundry room with a hanger bar and a folding table, I was more worried about this change, than many of the other changes in this house. I’m not one of those people
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The selling picture for this property was the picturesque red barn on the property. A friend of mine had mentioned early on that she wanted to take her family photos there.. and at the beginning we jokingly talked about the venue for weddings etc. Its an old old barn.. probably the same red lead paint
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When we moved onto the property, immediately as you turn onto the driveway, there was an old old old building. It looked like it was full of bullet holes. I thought it was some old outhouse that had be used for target practice later in life. It was heavily tilted and appeared to be supported only by
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From our very first visit to this property, there have been so many questions… so many mysteries. I feel a little like the Alden children, trying to solve a mystery(ies). So in order to keep track of them, I’m throwing all of our questions into one post.. and we will slowing figure them out as
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So why the dream? Where did it come from? Well glad you asked. We met in a the suburbs, lived in the suburbs, and had our children in the suburbs. We were comfortable in our home living in row houses with a small but manageable back yard. Matt had made our back yard
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