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Stuck
It's been quiet on this blog because I'm just tired of being optimistic on it. We're still stuck. We're still in Reasnor, still in our house, I'm still commuting an hour to work, we still just have a...
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T-shirt quilt and Camp
Fall is starting to roll in here, and with it beautiful sunsets like the one above. I do like fall, it's such a lovely time of year in Iowa. If only winter didn't follow on its heels!At our new farm...
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Forward!
The long-awaited post has arrived; we sold our farm. I waited until it actually closed to post this so I wouldn't curse it somehow, but I deposited the check of funds leftover from the sale today and...
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Poop
Sometimes being a farm wife is about poop. I spent about 4 hours today helping Ryan chase cows onto our trailer, and he took two loads out to the new farm. The third load is on the trailer now to be...
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Basement Walls and Gingerbread
We have basement walls! They got poured on Monday, right before this massive cold snap we're going through. The black coating is the waterproofing on the outside of the walls, in this picture the front...
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Framing and Holidays
We finally have framing! Since it's winter here in Iowa (a fact lost on none of us here), things like home construction have a tendency to... stop. Because tools and people don't work well when the...
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Poem: A Farmer's Dream
This morning a poem came to me while I was doing dishes, and I thought I would share it with you. Don't judge my poetry too harshly!A Farmer's DreamI dream of a tractor that works,of snow that falls...
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Sheathing and Siding
Time flies when you're building a house (and it also crawls). Since last posted, framing and outside house sheathing are done. Here's the main floor being framed:And the rafters going up: Rafters going...
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Roofing and butterfly rainbow quilt
Well the world (aka my family) is asking for more house pictures and kid pictures and whatnot, so I know I'm overdue (again) for a blog post. Here is the latest pic of our house that I took on Thursday...
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Insulation and drywall
Things keep on moving along, in the last two weeks we had spray foam insulation installed in the house. We actually did a sealed option where the attic becomes a semi-conditioned space and is not...
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Paint and Cementboard
It's been another busy couple of weeks on the farm and the house. First, we have had a couple of calves in the cow herd, which is good news. The herd has so far done well with us only visiting it every...
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Tiling
So in the month or so since I blogged last, what I've done most is tile. There was a stretch in there that I tiled or installed cementboard for every day for 9 days in a row. As a friend told me,...
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Concrete, Grading, and Field Day
House changes are definitely more subtle now, the latest is getting the grading done around the house and putting in our concrete. It's very nice to have the use of our front door now and it's also...
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Closet, Green Boy Quilt, and Jenga
As is typical every few months, the tractor died. This time it died down the road from our place about a half a mile while moving hay. It appears to have been due to junk in the fuel line, but I did...
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Kindergartener, Trim staining, and Disappearing 4 patch
Since my last post, I put a kindergartener on the school bus. I'm really not broken up about it; she is ready and likes school. I never rode the bus (I lived too close to school), so it's very nice to...
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Long update: Stuck, little sewing projects, winter goings-on
Fair warning: this is going to be a long catch-up post, and is likely to be scattered. I'm on a business trip and have access to internet, which is a rarity. My workplace blocks this blog site (for...
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Spring goings on, bird quilt, and Christmas Lone Star quilt
Things are going well in our neck of the woods, it has been much warmer out, after a very long, cool, dry spring. When I was working on staining the windows to our bedroom, this was my view. I had the...
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Hearth and Garden Growth
On Father's Day, Ryan pulled Father's Day privilege and insisted I work on a house project that wasn't on my priority list but was on his. So I worked on the hearth in our living room. We purchased the...
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End-of-summer gardens, creatures, and outings
It has been a fairly dry summer at the farm, much to Ryan's chagrin. Pretty much every storm that has come through has petered out right at our farm and then fired back up once it's past us. For...
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New placemats, costumes, and completed hearth
As usual, life got away from me and so did the Fall. We had a very long warm Fall here, which is unusual but was generally welcome. Ryan has been starting the chicken building by pouring a concrete...
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New eggs, laundry stand, and Luna
It's fully winter here, except that this year the world mostly forgot to do winter. The expected high tomorrow is over 60 degrees, and it's February! So strange. We've had less than a foot of snow all...
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2017 in summary - picture heavy!
Strap in, this is going to be a big post! My life went totally off the rails in March when I got my second promotion in 6 months to a Director job. It's demanding and crazy and I love it. But it means...
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Reconnecting
Someone I mentor has been gently encouraging me to reconnect with this blog, so here is my feeble attempt to do so. The farm is going fairly well, we have about 30 head of cattle now and have...
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Dahlias, slippers, and steak fry
The attempt to revive my blog continues! Fall is always a busy time on the farm, Ryan took two cows to the locker this last week and we have a batch of chickens out on the pasture along with our...
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Country living and simple quilt projects
Because it's beautiful and makes me happy, I'm starting this post with a sunrise. One of the things about living in midwest farm country is that sunrises and sunsets are often dramatic and colorful and...
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