I must confess…. that in the process of writing this post… I was totally task switching, not multitasking. Like between 3 different things. I seriously need to look at this issue in my life. This whole slow internet thing is NOT helping either!!!! (ok yes.. I know.. I will stop whining about it soon) [...]
Sorry.. but my floors have been consuming my every moment of free time (and moments snatched while waiting for web pages to load) I am like slap happy about how they are turning out. Let’s take a moment and visit them in the raw state… (remember this is just supposed to be a subfloor with [...]
For the most part… I am absolutly LOVING this simple, slower life. OK.. maybe it’s not slower.. but filled with less electronics. No TV? Loving it! No high speed internet? NOT. AT. ALL. I’ve been trying to convince myself that it’s not that bad. It keeps the kids from being online very much. It forces [...]
Life without a working kitchen has actually been pretty fun. With no pressure to create big meals, we are eating a lot of raw fruits and vegetables and grilled meats. I am VERY thankful it’s summer. Beverages has proved to be one of our challenges. Not that it’s hard.. but just seems to be messy. [...]
My washer and dryer are hooked up. YES!! I had no idea that would bring me so much happiness… but it SOOO does.
The first experimental floor finish is down… and we moved some of the kitchen stuff in.. oh!! and OSB walls!! can you see the distressed area in the upper left???? fancy yes??? DH admit that he likes it well enough that I should go ahead and fill in the cracks and nail holes and repaint [...]
The plan is to have a nice laminate floor throughout the whole cabin. But that is going down much later in the process. Had we known we would be moving in before the floor was down, we probably would have used something with a better finish on it than OSB. But.. too late for that [...]
Long story short… When we closed our business last fall we were left with a large shop building on the property we loved/prayed for/wished for for years that was home to all our animals. We were living in a house in town that we did NOT love. We also had a budget that could not [...]
Turns out that DSL did NOT make the move with us. When the installer went to our location he decided it was too remote for DSL. <insert shocked/horrified image I would insert if I had faster internet and could search for images> It’s not as terrible as it sounds. (OK it is..but I’m trying to [...]
