Finally meeting our hero – "The Guy"

by | Jan 16, 2008 | Homesteading Life

Here in our little village, there are quite a few other timber frame houses, but few of them have been taken care of like ours. Some of them have recently have the timbers covered up because it was the cheapest option to repair them – and many (if not most) of...

Back to the farm

by | Nov 17, 2007 | Decorating, Homesteading Life, Thanksgiving

We’ve been on vacation for the last week and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. No vacation can be completely without mishaps and ours certainly wasn’t. Before we left last Thursday, we found out that a storm was hitting the coast of Holland where we were...

Anyone need a new buffet??

by | Nov 6, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home

We are putting up this piece of furniture on freecycle for anyone who wants it. I know most people who read this blog aren’t anywhere close enough to come get this piece of furniture but perhaps someone might be. At any rate, we wanted to give people from...

Plenty of work going on here today

by | Nov 6, 2007 | Homesteading Life, House & Home

The electrician came out yesterday and before he arrived in the morning, Stefan wasn’t really sure we had anything for him to do. But once the guy got here and we started talking to him, it became clear that we had more than enough work for him for the next...