This week the landscape has changed again as the snow has melted. The runoff has transformed the dry creek beds in the ravines into lovely babbling brooks. This evening Sarah and I heard the first chorus of spring peepers marking the arrival of spring. With spring here we have a lot to do, we have…
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Slow and Steady: Real Life Jenga for Keeps.
This week on the homestead we made some slow and steady progress on the mother-in-law house. For part of the project, it almost felt like we were playing Jenga on a large scale with much higher stakes. Pull one board out, put another one in, wait to make sure nothing goes wrong… But, it feels…
Something lost, something gained, and a light at the end of the Crawlspace
This week on the homestead we continued our mother-in-law house repair. We can finally see the light at the end of the crawlspace! However, to break things up a bit, I will share some other news. We have had sad and exciting happenings here while I have been stuck beneath a house. Something Lost About…
Breaking Into the Void with Friends
Last week we dropped the floor in the mother in law house to start fixing. We were hoping to quickly fix it up so that our relatives, Abby and Keanu, could move into it and finally remove it from my to-do list. We were severally disappointed in our hopes. This week we go into the…
It is Always Worse than you think
You know how when you start a project and you think you know how what it will involve. Then you get into it and you find out you vastly underestimated things. Well, this week I experienced that in a big way, and I was reminded that when it comes to home repair and maintenance it…