First Snow

First snow this past weekend. Not much yet but we had about

4 inches. Sophie's plan was to be in every pic today.

Beavers are truly amazing creatures in the size of the trees

they can cut and carry in a very short period of time.

Sophie has to be here too.


Plow in winter.

A good ripper going to warm up the kitchen. This was one

huge blaze.

Garden in the first snow.

The weekend was spent finishing the sanding and priming

all of the woodwork. The panels had some primer put on

them before they are glued. Should go in this week. Painting

party this weekend. We are finally seeing the end of this.

Moving Along on the "Project"

Photo of a fire in the oven - this is the second in a series

of small fires to temper an oven that hasn't been used

since 1940 or earlier.

Russell brought the panel for the fireplace over on Thanksgiving

weekend. It has to acclimate for a couple of weeks before it

can be installed.

Beautiful - can't wait to see it in.

Stripping the door to the stairway. Interesting paint choices
back in the day.

Stripped - waiting for primer.

Looking like we could make our Christmas deadline.

A Little Fun at Ollie's

Just a little break with Carolyn & Mike at

Ollie's Down Under.

This is what happens when you forget your

reading glasses.

Some patron thought we should have our pic taken.

Great food, great fun!

Catching up

Spent most of the first weekend in November cutting, splitting

and stacking wood. Bill measuring to find out how much we have in.

A little over 5 cords in the shed, more outside and underneath

the barn. Thanks Mike for all your help.

Mike brought over the rototiller to turn under the garden.
Very sad :0(

Returning the tiller.

Garden in fall.

That Time of Year Again

Bill had a few cut trees to bring to the house so Russell let

him borrow his dump trailer.

He and Mike loaded it up and dumped it in the yard.

More than once.

Bill moved and stacked with the Bobcat.

This is my favorite part of Russ's trailer. Do people actually lie down

on the trailer frame with the dump body up ?!?

Manda and Cait learned to use the splitter.

I had to take pictures because this is so out of character.

Bill brought the wood to the splitter, they split it, I stacked it

in the shed. Moved right along.

Trimming out the windows

Mike came over Saturday to help with the window trim. He

set up his little woodshop on the patio.

While he measured and cut the wood Bill used the sawzall

to cut off the casing that stuck out into the room.

Mike showed Bill how to use the router for the edges of the windowsill.
They made it extra wide so I could put plants on it.



Measure twice, cut once.


Mike and Bill trying to get the reveals even.

Mike primed everything after they were put together. They are

beautiful. We are building some good mojo back into this

old house, one little step at a time.

This project has been a little (rather large actually) labor

of love. Everyone that's worked on it has been

someone close to us - not someone we hired. It makes a

difference.

Since the Rain Never Stops

Thinking we were going to have a great boating weekend

we went to Rowe with the idea that Sunday would

be the perfect day.

The overcast skies lead us to thinking about an indoor project

so we finished cleaning out the library and began working on the

physical cleanup of the ceiling and floor.

Bill and I took turns using the shop vac to take

off the big chunks of paint.

I have to tell you this wasn't a lot of fun.

Cait goes up on Tuesday and Wednesday to spend her
time with a paint scraper on a ladder. She'll have even less
fun, but she's willing.

Next a little floor clean up to last us til next spring
when the entire floor will come out and the floor
joists (and maybe a sill) will be replaced. A wide pine floor
will go in the place of this one.