The new part of the house was added on in the mid-70’s or so. I still remember bits and pieces of the construction, including the pouring of concrete for the steps at the main entry.
After all these decades, it’s to be expected that those heavy steps would slowly sink, creating a gap.
A fairly large one.
Continue readingWell, it’s done for now!
My second attempt at making a probiotic fermented vegetable type of sauerkraut.
Click here to read about the first attempt, and step-by-step.
And here, so see how it failed, and my thoughts on why. :-(
With that as a learning experience, I made a few changes this time.
Continue readingTwo years ago today, we were finally reunited as a family. We had some close calls on the drive over, but we made it.
Our work was just beginning. We had almost an entire house to pack before we could have our own stuff delivered. But we muddled our way through and managed to survive it more or less intact! ;-)
A year later, much work had been accomplished over the summer, and we were using what we learned over our first winter to try and solve some problems for our second.
Thankfully, we don’t have to rig anything up again this year!
Little by little, we’re working things out. :-)
Who knows. A few more years, and we might have it all figured out. ;-)
The Re-Farmer
So… the outside cats didn’t need much feeding this morning.
This is how I found things when I came in.
How none of that fell into the litter pans, I have no idea!
Also, we had company while I was cleaning up.
Could this be our culprit?
Continue readingTwo years ago, the movers arrived.
So began what was probably the worst move we’ve had.
Okay, so there may have been one other that was worse, but that was because we all came down with the flu and got so sick, I actually collapsed from illness and exhaustion. Which has never happened to be before or since.
But we didn’t have to deal with a moving company that time. They were supposed to make things better. Not worse! Having to spend hours in the van, with the cats, trying to keep our plants and fish from freezing didn’t help, either.
A year later saw things much improved. Rather than having to deal with all the hassles of moving, we were into our routine of keeping this place going –
– and sometimes finding damage done by the deer that were visiting regularly!
The Re-Farmer
We are coming up on our two year anniversary of all 4 of us moving from the big city in another province, so my family farm.
Continue readingWhen we rigged up the shelf outside the sun room to be a cat shelter, there were a few things I identified as potential problems. The tarp is staple gunned in place, for example, and I could see those giving out easily.
What I never imagined happening, however, is what I found this morning.
Continue readingI discovered the cats were not the only ones enjoying the warmer, insulated sun room, this evening!
Continue readingIt warmed up a little bit today, so we got to work on winterizing the sun room. When that was done, I was even able to modify the shelf we have outside the sun room into a cat shelter.
What a job it was, too!!
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