tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33295310912934301342024-03-19T08:01:55.188-04:00Homespun Girlkmaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07690743676248128429noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531091293430134.post-74112801217926821172013-04-21T21:07:00.001-04:002013-04-21T21:14:15.738-04:00What's new at the Potlake farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
How much is 22 yards of dirt? </div>
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A lot. A really lot. </div>
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Last fall we built 6 very large raised beds. Due to the rocks. It's easier to shovel 22 yards of dirt than dig a garden through rock. I showed you <a href="http://homespungirl.blogspot.ca/2013/04/rock-on.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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The garlic is up and the lettuce, peas, radishes and spinach have sprouted.</div>
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The house is coming along. Tile in the shower is installed.</div>
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The floor is pebbles ( aka little stones ). </div>
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This is the back porch. </div>
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Happy sunlight streams in all day. </div>
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This is the master bedroom. Another sunny room with french doors that lead out to the open porch.</div>
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The pine floors are acclimating. Hopefully, they'll be laid soon. </div>
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This is the porch off our bedroom. I'm hoping that a coat of paint will make it look more like a porch and less like a deck...</div>
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Keep your fingers crossed for the bead board ceiling in the kitchen, dining and living rooms to start going up in the coming week. It's been on backorder at the mill ( pout ).</div>
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Once that is up and painted, the floors can go down and then the bathroom fixtures, baseboards and window trim. </div>
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We're close.... it's coming together.</div>
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Have a sunny week! </div>
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hugs, K</div>
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This morning dawned grey and chilly. It rained again. </div>
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I found this vintage cotton and lace baby dress.</div>
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To say that the bonnet has seen better days is an understatement.</div>
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Thankfully, it has a new home :-) </div>
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Construction at the Potlake house is coming along. Drywall is complete and it's all primed and painted.</div>
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We're waiting for the bead board ceiling to go in, then floors, then trim and the kitchen.</div>
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The yard will be cleaned up this week - there are several piles of <strike>dirt</strike> rocks from when the basement and foundation were dug. </div>
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So many rocks it makes me laugh out loud.</div>
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I like rocks. A lot.</div>
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I've picked ( well, hoarded really ) as many as I can. They're stacked up around avery tree...</div>
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Tonnes of them. For REAL. And I've carried every one!</div>
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I've been dreaming with the help of Pinterest.</div>
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I can barely wait to start building flower beds.</div>
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This chair asked to come home with me a couple of months ago. </div>
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The stain on it had become so dark it was almost black and the finish was crackly like alligator skin.</div>
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It had paint spatter on it and some obvious repairs. - like a metal bar screwed all the way across the front.</div>
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There's a metal rod that you can adjust to recline the chair.</div>
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I was going to paint it white to match the rocker that I like to sit in...</div>
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but it's for Mike to sit in on our porch so I refinished it instead.</div>
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I wanted to keep some of the original patina. </div>
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Stripping and sanding it down to new would be like disregarding it's whole storey. </div>
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This chair has earned every dent and chip. </div>
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p.s. you can see <i>some</i> green in our very grey lawn - come on spring, you can do it!</div>
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To celebrate St.Patricks Day, some photos of our trip last year to Blarney Castle. </div>
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According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of gab or blarney; the ability to flatter and persuade with the highest degree of eloquence and wit. </div>
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I LOVE <a href="http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEw12/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6;">Knitty</span></a> free patterns.</div>
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I've been working on<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <a href="http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEss11/PATTcorinne.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">this</span></a></span> sweater for a while.</div>
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I love how it's knit in one piece. Pretty nifty! </div>
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I feel like I've been knitting and knitting and knitting - and my sweater's not getting any bigger. </div>
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So I started a smaller project with bigger needles...</div>
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It'll be an eternity scarf. Hopefully I'll finish before the weather turns warm.</div>
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The rooms in the background will be a sewing room and a laundry room. The back porch is there behind the little square window.</div>
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Our bedroom. It's really large ( smile ).</div>
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The second bedroom. It's really large too. I don't have grandchildren yet but I'll be ready when I do.</div>
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I made steel cut oatmeal in the crockpot last week - genius, let me know if you're interested in the recipe. - and had eaten it all week and there was still some left so I used it to make oatmeal bread. It turned out beautifully. I used the bread machine to make the dough then did the baking in the oven. </div>
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1 cup cooked, cooled steal cut oats and barley</div>
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Just put all the ingredients in the bread machine in the order listed. Set to the dough setting and let it go. Drop it out onto a floured board and punch it down. Shape into a log or divide into 2greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 for about half hour or until it sounds hollow when you tap it. </div>
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It was so good even Adam had 2 slices and he won't eat home baked bread because he only likes white bread and he doesn't trust me to just make white bread.</div>
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And then chocolate chip cookies from <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/344840/soft-and-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies" target="_blank">Martha Stewart</a>. If I wasn't sure Adam will make these disappear lickity split, I be concerned about the temptation. ( I'm getting healthy come he!! or high water! ).</div>
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For the most part everything I've ever collected is all packed up and fills this 3 car garage and the chicken coop turned shed ( one day it will be a little guest room ).</div>
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I've watched all three seasons since December. </div>
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Just a little more to do on the peaks. The section under the row of windows on the right will be stone. </div>
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This is the front.</div>
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I'm <i>so</i> eager to be living here, and it's tough to be patient when it's taking so long and everybody that I know is pretty much just as eager and happy to say so too, but I'm staying positive as well as I can.</div>
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The whole year that I was five, I was waiting to be six. Christopher Robin was six, after all. I missed out on five because I was sure that six was what it was all about. </div>
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Somebody told me once that the universe will keep giving you opportunity until you've learned the lesson. Gasp! I'm worried that I'll never learn this lesson and I'll forever be stuck here in the "in between" waiting for something to happen. </div>
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Tonight I'll be dreaming of the new garden. Can't wait to get in the dirt! </div>
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The Holidays are over and all the kids have gone home. It's quiet now. </div>
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I've scrubbed the house clean, emptied my closet and dresser, purged and organized. It happens to me every January. Some people make resolutions, try to get healthy, reflect on the past year. Me - I clean up and get organized with a vengeance. After weeks ( months, maybe ) of build up - shopping, baking, decorating, going to parties and entertaining at home; after all the expectation of having the kids home again and all together, <i>having</i> the kids home and in and out at all hours, I'm so intoxicated by anticipation and excitement that by New Years Eve I'm near ready to burst. I'm scrambled. It's true - there's nothing else to do but enjoy all the fabulous mayhem because I know I'll miss this when it's over, but I have used up all my patience not worrying about the mess so by New Years Day I just HAVE to clean up. </div>
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Sweetly spiced scones with cinnamon and cardamom from <a href="http://theenglishkitchen.blogspot.ca/search/label/scones" target="_blank">this recipe</a>. I left out the blueberry jam and the drizzle but they would be delicious with both. </div>
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When we were in England, scones were served with clotted cream. Sounds questionable ( clotted ???) - but it really was a treat. </div>
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And then I found <a href="http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/oatmeal-muffins-recipe.html" target="_blank">this recipe</a> for Oatmeal Muffins. I added one chopped apple. </div>
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Best Apple Oat Muffins ever. </div>
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What a sweet surprise yesterday to look out and see snow falling. I don't imagine it will still be here on Christmas morning but there's nothing like the first real snowfall to put me in a happy mood. </div>
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I love how a blanket of snow makes the fields, the yards, and the shoulders of the road all clean. Like fresh sheets on the bed. I love the sound of snow falling; how it muffles all the dirty sounds of the day to day busy-ness and transforms it to a distant hum. Snow falling softly, floating down like a heavy sigh from above, reseting my balance <i>and</i> the world outsides'. </div>
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Chilly, rainy days, like today, are precious. Conversations with Mom. Spending the afternoon cuddled up next to Mike under a home made quilt, watching an old black and white movie for the hundredth time. A hot cup of peppermint tea with honey and a candle burning. A homely little, make-do tree. Kids home for dinner. </div>
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These Santas were on the tree in Mike's childhood home. </div>
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The true value in these old ornaments is the connection they have to Mike's Mom, who passed away years ago, and his story book childhood, that made him the man that I adore today.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329531091293430134.post-9934522894758390352012-11-25T15:03:00.002-05:002012-11-25T22:59:57.731-05:00Barn Love and a Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I have a penchant for barns. When we were property shopping we looked at a house that had a beautiful big round barn. We couldn't make it work... but I <b>really</b> wanted that barn. </div>
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This barn is just down the road my old house. It stands on a stone foundation and is built into a small hill.</div>
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Sadly, it sits unused and has fallen into disrepair.</div>
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It's a story about a young woman and her family that move into a barn in the early 1900's. Here's an excerpt: </div>
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<i>"Good barn!" he was saying reflectively. "Pity to have it standing idle so long; but they'll never rent it without a house, and they won't build. It belongs to the old man's estate, and can't be divided until the youngest boy's of age, four 'r five years yet. The house burned down two years ago. Some tramps set it afire. No, nobody was living in it at the time. The last renter didn't make the farm pay,—too fur from the railroad, I guess,—and there ain't anybody near enough round to use the barn since Halyer built his new barn," and he indicated a great red structure down the road on the other side. "Halyer useta use this,—rented it fer less'n nothing, but he got too lazy to come this fur, and so he sold off half his farm fer a dairy and built that there barn. So now I s'pose that barn'll stand idle and run to waste till that kid comes of age and there's a boom up this way and it's sold. Pity about it, though; it's a good barn. Wisht I had it up to my place; I could fill it."</i></div>
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I've always had trouble making decisions. I remember as a small girl going to a toy store and being told to choose one thing. I knew I wanted Barbie clothes... but I couldn't decide which package. </div>
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So the delays in construction at our new house have given me an opportunity to dream. I'm figuring out what I love <i>most</i>. </div>
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This weekend we went out shopping for a kitchen. </div>
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These cupboards from Martha Stewart at Home Depot...</div>
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I hope it all comes together as in my imagination. And I hope I don't change my mind after it's too late.</div>
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Hugs, Karen</div>
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In the beginning, everything I owned was second hand out of neccesity. We were young, and I stayed at home to raise our family. Being frugal was simply part of my job. </div>
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There's freedom in living simply.</div>
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This old car was just left in a field at the side of the road. </div>
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I hope you have a beautiful, simple week :-)</div>
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Progress on the house has been slow most of the summer, but October brought cooler temperatures and lots of activity. We discovered that there wasn't much ( well, none really ) of a foundation under the east side of the house so had to deal with that. </div>
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It seems that the path of progress is one step back then two steps forward. </div>
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We are on a roller coaster - discouraged, then hopeful; impatient, then filled with anticipation.</div>
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We are trying not to stress about how long this is taking, focusing on what we have control over, letting go of things we cannot change, and working at choosing our battles.</div>
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It's been a real test. </div>
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This is the back of the house... all the windows are in and exterior insulation is up.</div>
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This is a view of the kitchen. The bathroom has been moved and the patio door is where the window used to be. The small over-the-sink window has been replaced with a larger one, which came from directly across on the opposite wall. A french door will go in that spot. </div>
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We are adding a small front porch. </div>
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This is a straight on front view of the front porch. The french doors will go in once the exterior construction is finished. </div>
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Some people's homes are like sitcoms ( well, mine is kinda like that too ) but raising and keeping chickens has been somewhat of a Shakespearian play at our house. </div>
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We got our first chickens a year and a half ago. Little peeps, and we raised them up nicely. We had just moved them out of the garage and into the coop when I had to go on a business trip. I was gone two nights. When I returned I was anxious to see my girls, Minnie, Martha, McAdoo, and Rose.</div>
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Where I had expected to see 3 plymouth rocks and one rhode island red there was a mismatched menagerie including 3 brown leg horns and 4 buff rocks. </div>
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What the dickens! Where are my chickens? </div>
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To Mike's horror, ( " how am I going to tell Karen?! " ) when he went out to check on them the very first morning without me he discovered that some critter had actually gotten in somehow and absconded with three of our four chickens. He was panicked. He scrambled to find a few replacements ( as if! but thanks for trying ). </div>
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His go-to person didn't have any to spare, but just so happened there was a chicken auction in town that same night. Who even new this happens! </div>
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So... I tell myself "this happens when you live on a farm." I remembered the saying " Where there's livestock, there's deadstock". I pull up my bootstraps and set to getting to know the new girls. I give them names. One of the buff rocks was quite malnourished and had only a few feathers. We name her Plucky and we change the name of the only survivor of what we now refer to as <i>the massacre</i>, to Lucky Martha.</div>
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We focus on getting them healthy and happy. We do a great job . Our friend in chickens drops off a little black hen and we name her Butterfly. </div>
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Our chickens start clucking like crazy, feathers start getting a little fancy, and combs are getting a little on the showy side.</div>
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2 of the leghorns and 1 of the buff rocks are definitely not hens. We can't have roosters in a backyard coop. They make too much noise. We decide that they must go in the freezer. I encourage Mike: "'You can clean a fish - you can clean a chicken." </div>
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2 more buff rocks reveal themselves to be roosters. More tragedy. </div>
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We can't muster the conviction to do our on dirty work again and so they go to auction. </div>
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While we are there I spy 2 beautiful aracanas. I was not successful n the bidding but I made a connection with the chicken farmer Mr Drury. Yay - next month when he comes I won't have to bid - we've agreed on a price for 2 auracnas and 2 blue laced red wyandottes. We come home that night with an old lady and we name her Gladys. She's a good buy at $5 and lays a beautiful large brown egg every single day! </div>
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Lucky Martha, Gidget, and Butterfly are introduced to four new coop mates the following month. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It doesn't go well. The wyandottes are pecked to death the next day while we are at work. It's my fault; </span></span>I should have prepared even though Gladys's introduction went so well.<span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></div>
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It's going great. They are all laying eggs. We get through the winter virtually drama free.</div>
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We learn what it means to be egg-bound ( you can read about that here ) but there are no deaths. </div>
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We buy the Potlake farm and are excited to let our chickens range the yard freely. The chickens are happy. We are spending every minute that we can at the farm although we aren't living there yet .</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">One sunny afternoon, we take a walk to the back which really isn't our property but there's a lovely pond with ducks and willows blowing. On our return some 20 minutes later, we approach the owner farmer on his tractor. He has stopped and gotten off and is walking toward us. I suspect that he is coming over to ask us not to walk his farm so I head toward the house and Mike heads over to have the conversation. As I approach our own backyard, I see a poof of black and white feathers on the ground so I rush to find my girls! Oh no! I can find everyone but Lucky Martha! </span></span></div>
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All of the original peeps are gone. We<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> are sad and angry and agree that the girls cannot be left in the yard when we are not present even though the dog owner has agreed that he will be tied or fenced.</span></span></div>
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Summer continues on and we don't lose any more birds. The girls are doing what girls do. They scratch around the yard looking for good bugs and munching grass. They use their feminine wiles to persuade family and friends to feed them tortilla chips and strawberries by hand. </div>
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We now have a new coop ( thanks to one handy guy named Dale and his tractor ) and a nice sized fenced yard. </div>
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This little oriole was hanging on for dear life; it was so so windy.</div>
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After a month long break inside the house, we are back in motion!</div>
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It might not look like much - but it makes me very happy to see even a bit of progress. </div>
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This is a view of the kitchen from the dining room... see the ceiling has been removed to the roof? </div>
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We are going to leave it open like that. It feels so much larger.</div>
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The stud wall on the right will come out and what used to be the washroom will become part of the kitchen too.</div>
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This is part of the addition - our bedroom! The french door has been installed. They will lead to a gorgeous ( in my imagination ) porch.</div>
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This is the spare (aka Adam's ) room - windows installed.</div>
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This is the front room, where the front door used to be. It's just of the dining room. What used to be the front door has been closed in and the small window has been replaced with a larger window that we salvaged from the living room.</div>
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This room will be a home office and sewing room for me! </div>
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Its been too hot here to do anything. Too hot to even think about doing anything. So instead of cutting grass, gardening or cooking, I've been fooling around with Photoshop. I took a pic of a pansy on white paper and then added a layer to create a background.</div>
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Then I took the same photo, made it black and white, added back some colour then added 2 layers. I like the antique, kinda shabby look.</div>
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I wouldn't have stopped here - except that this took all morning. Yes. All. Morning. Two pictures. </div>
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Progress, however slow it seems, is much appreciated! Since I've last posted, we have a first floor addition. </div>
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This will be two bedrooms. We're looking at the south side of the house, which looks out over the back yard.</div>
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Shortly after that, the roof trusses are placed and the porch takes shape.</div>
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The big hole in the wall will be french doors onto the porch from our bedroom! </div>
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The tree in the below pic was growing roots all through the weeping bed.</div>
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and finally, sadly, there was a beautiful elm growing into the roof on the garage.</div>
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When we are tired and dirty and discouraged ( there was mouse poop all through the insulation in the ceilings and a squirrel living under the bathtub ), we reminisce about the best vacation ever.</div>
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Nothing could be finer on a sunny spring day in Cambridge!</div>
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