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Yippee! We have veggies! Don't snigger at the grass in my garden. I know it's out of control. I spent the morning hours pulling it o...

Nasty discovery today. We took the paneling down in the living room and office and discovered extensive termite damage. Befor...

I finally remembered the camera so I've got lots of pictures to show. These are of Billy. He's afraid of Pearlie and she fanci...

It's amazing what we don't know. lol I had an uncomfortable feeling that we were supposed to be doing something about our pasture t...

The goat's registered name is Stony something-or-other, but Tom insists on calling him Billy. There is no fighting it. He will be Bill...

First, above is a picture of one wall of my kitchen cabinets. It's the "command center" where I'll put my computer, ...

The cabinets are installed. It went off almost without a hitch. The man that I hired to install them was very good. Very meticulous like ...

I spent yesterday and today painting the guest rooms and hall leading to them. I finished the biggest one and ran out of paint before finish...

I put a deposit on the goat today. We'll have to pick him up within two weeks. I wasn't able to go to the farm. I had too many thing...

We were out at the farm Friday evening and Tom was out in the carport moving a small stack of lumber. When he lifted up one of the pieces, ...

Happy discovery! There are loads of wild blackberries everywhere. All along our fence line, all along the fence line across the stre...

Here's the gutted kitchen. In the background is the living room full of the new cabinets still in their boxes.

And while we were busy putting the roof back on, Pearlie was wandering around outside, knowing she was not allowed. I turned around and sh...

Another project completed! Yay! The roofers finally came out to shingle our little well cover that Tom had taken down weeks ago. So ...

So, I was sure I wanted to get a Great Pyrenees to serve as a guard dog for the goats that we're going to get. But while I was looking ...

I ordered the kitchen window today. Just went with a simple slider style rather than something beautiful or different. We've been spen...

Our drive to the farm is beautiful at this time of year because of the wildflowers...that is, if you can look past all the trucks, cars, a...

I wasn't able to go to the farm yesterday or today, but Tom went. Yesterday, he took our handyman friend, Nolan, with him and they fini...

Our garden is actually growing. I'm so excited. From the top picture is the corn, the row of squash and one little bean plant that is th...

Ugh. We know nothing about septic systems, but we're learning. The first step in getting our new systems was pumping the old ones. Th...