I started this blog six years ago to keep track of the renovation work we were doing on the new old house we’d just acquired. It was a house and acres filled with history on both sides of our families and I wanted to document it. You can read that story here. We’ve become complacent … Continue reading Porch Work
There’s a ladder living in our bathroom. A small seven-word sentence. It doesn’t even have an exclamation point at the end. Although it should! In 2011, when we became official owners of this little cottage, the bathroom was the first room we intended to refinish. It’s small, we thought; yes, start small. But then we … Continue reading In the midst of noise, trouble, and hard work
This is the third August that has come around and I haven’t had to think about school. Instead of thinking on lesson plans and books and remembering kids’ names, I’m thinking on canning and freezing the garden’s produce, and sitting on the back porch with a glass of mint iced tea and enjoying these soon-to-be-glorious days of September. Last … Continue reading Iced Tea on the Back Porch
the circle of life 