Beware:  The following is a picture happy post… with not so happy “before” pictures.  ????   I shared with you the before pictures of the kitchen, but this room was so much work that I needed to break it up in two different “before” posts. What did you think? Could you smell it through your […]

Whew…. FINALLY, the dining room reveal.  Yay! I started talking about the dining room 100 years ago but then Project Backyard and Project Pergola kind of took center stage.  Here in Indiana, we only have so many months to enjoy the weather outside.  We are finally to the point on the pergola to be able […]

OK…so here’s the story.  I completely glossed right over and forgot my last Five on Friday post, because we’ve been working non-stop on this DANG pergola.  And best yet, it appears as though we are getting nothing done.  ????

Seriously, you guys.  I’m dying!  ???? If there was an emoji of a 150 year old rickety woman in a bed all wrapped up in bandages and in traction, I would certainly use that one.  We started our pergola yesterday.  You are probably just as excited as we are for the pure fact I’ve been […]

I told you last week that the next room I was going to show you was our dining room.  It’s a room that unbelievably we use all of the time, even with just the two of us.

‘Tis the SEASON! First off, you have to know that Deb’s favorite bird in the entire world is the hummingbird.  To those of you that know her, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.  She is in constant motion with projects and is always willing to work.  She says if she could come back to this […]

A few months ago, I swear I had the bird flu. Maybe it was the swine flu.   Whatever it was, I coughed harder than I have ever coughed in my entire 150 years living on this Earth.  I woke up one morning completely unable to talk.  I used sign language to tell Deb that […]

So, things have taken a turn with a snowball effect.  The weather has been so nice that we decided we MUST work outside.  Remember, I was a farmer in my previous life AND I am a fake homesteader, so we must plant our crops when the weather is good.  Isn’t that “farmer talk?”  You would […]