Animals
- Thanksgiving Wrap-up....on To Christmas!!
Well, it's December 1st. I suppose you can say we are officially in the Christmas season.Thanksgiving is behind us, now.All that remains are a few various leftovers in the refrigerator,and a heart full of wonderful memories. Tyler running for a touchdown...
- Making The Most Of A Rainy Day
Halloween gave us a drizzly, foggy, soggy day... the kind of day that keeps everyone under cover or indoors with the expectation of room service! I made sure that everyone received their treats, and then spent the day indoors giving our guest...
- House Tour Continued.....
Today's stop on our house tour is the 1st floor guest room. I spent months planning this room and shopping auctions and local antique stores for all of the special touches. The bed is an iron antique reproduction and is dressed with vintage white...
- Construction Update
The cupola has found its place on top of the garage roof. The walnut floors are stained and ready to finish. I love the warmth of walnut...and I love the mix of heartwood (brown) and sapwood (white). This picture was taken looking down on the powder room...
- Snug As A Bug
"Snug as a bug in a rug"....that is how I would describe life in our little A-frame. We have all the essentials in a very tiny space. I thought I would give you a little tour of our living quarters for the next year while our log home is being built....
Animals
Bringing the Blog Indoors
Rather than make you look at more rainy, foggy, mucky pictures of soggy animals,
I am taking today's blog post into the house...
which is pretty much where I am staying while we are in the midst of this
atrocious weather!
Every once in a while I receive a request for photos from inside our farm house.
Even though I feel that our animals are ten times more interesting than
anything else on the farm...
I know how curious we all are about how other people live.
And being a faithful blog reader of several of my own favorite blogs,
I, too, love to see snippets of others' lives.
Here are a few snippets of my life...
I thought I would give you a little tour of my laundry room and some of my favorite
things that I've found in antique malls over the years.
I love, love this old washing machine!
When I saw it, I knew it had to come to live in my laundry room.
And when we built our farmhouse, I made the small laundry room just big enough to fit
this beauty in a corner.
The most wonderful thing about it is it still works... by muscle power.
I love having old tools that could take the place of modern day appliances if we were ever faced with
a long-term loss of electricity.
And of course, if worse came to worse, I could always take one of these down to the creek and do the laundry there!
This old grain bin has become our hamper/sorter...
with two sections inside, there is plenty of room for whites and colors.
Hanging on another wall in the laundry room is my motto...
and beneath it an idea that I came up with to use shoe lasts as coat hooks.
My absolute favorite things (after my family and critters and friends)
live in our guest room.
This room only gets the morning light, so it is a little dark...
I know it's a "no-no" to photograph a room with lights on.
This old doll house was carved from wooden cigar boxes over 80 years ago
for my Mother by her uncle.
I keep a tiny electric candle light burning in it at all times.
I keep a tiny electric candle light burning in it at all times.
For many years it was part of Christmas villages beneath my grandparents' Christmas trees.
It has been my most prized possession all of my adult years.
Just as dear to me is this old cabinet Victrola.
It, too, belonged to my grandparents.
As I child, I would gently wind the handle and listen to the old records...
hoping that some day it would become mine.
It still plays...just as well as it always has....
fond memories.
On top of the Victrola cabinet is a second victrola that plays wax tubes instead of records.
This also works as well as it did when it was manufactured....
somewhere in the very early 1900's.
Both of these play without the use of electricity...
simply wound by a metal spring!
I have such a fondness for old things...especially ones that have been in my family.
They remind me of a simpler time; and having them gives me the opportunity
to enjoy that simpler time myself... at least for just a little while.
I have such a fondness for old things...especially ones that have been in my family.
They remind me of a simpler time; and having them gives me the opportunity
to enjoy that simpler time myself... at least for just a little while.
I finished another Owl hat yesterday...
this time in an adult size...
This is one really quick pattern that knits up in a day!
- Thanksgiving Wrap-up....on To Christmas!!
Well, it's December 1st. I suppose you can say we are officially in the Christmas season.Thanksgiving is behind us, now.All that remains are a few various leftovers in the refrigerator,and a heart full of wonderful memories. Tyler running for a touchdown...
- Making The Most Of A Rainy Day
Halloween gave us a drizzly, foggy, soggy day... the kind of day that keeps everyone under cover or indoors with the expectation of room service! I made sure that everyone received their treats, and then spent the day indoors giving our guest...
- House Tour Continued.....
Today's stop on our house tour is the 1st floor guest room. I spent months planning this room and shopping auctions and local antique stores for all of the special touches. The bed is an iron antique reproduction and is dressed with vintage white...
- Construction Update
The cupola has found its place on top of the garage roof. The walnut floors are stained and ready to finish. I love the warmth of walnut...and I love the mix of heartwood (brown) and sapwood (white). This picture was taken looking down on the powder room...
- Snug As A Bug
"Snug as a bug in a rug"....that is how I would describe life in our little A-frame. We have all the essentials in a very tiny space. I thought I would give you a little tour of our living quarters for the next year while our log home is being built....