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With the the help of Remi, Geneva, Ryan, Amanda and Mike, we got a ton done at our work party. The trench was dug to bring water and electric to the garden, orchard, chicken coop and future goat enclosure. It had to be 4 feet deep to be below the frost line. Mike was down [...]
Here’s what’s happening! We’ve been busy busy… hence the lack of blog posts. Our first blueberry bush went in the garden. The chickens are doing awesome. And we ordered more chickens…and ducks too! Momma deer and their babies from last year out and about looking for spring shoots: Erick Doxey took some awesome pics (more on those [...]
Once we finished construction on the house, we began replacing all of our Pottery Barn furniture with things we’ve crafted ourselves. Currently we have several projects underway. We’re constructing a custom murphy bed for our guest bedroom which will be encased in a wall of books, with a drop down desk inside it. We’re also [...]
Over the winter I’ve been trying to finish up a lot of interior projects so that as spring comes around we can really focus all of our time on the garden and various outdoor construction projects we have planned. So far… We’ve finished building, painting and hanging all the custom interior chalkboard doors. We built [...]
Small by Modern Standards Our home is 1,000 square feet. It feels wonderfully spacious to us, but by modern standards, it’s quite small. In fact, the average home size in US is 2,438 square feet, according to the US Census. To us, though, our “tiny” home is perfect. Although big houses are still the norm, small [...]
The light from a winter sunset is hard to beat. We love the snow for it’s beauty and how it quiets our already serene environment. We also love that snow brings wildlife closer to the house. They’re still cautious, though! Inside, we are working away on more projects. Scott is nearly finished with the bottom [...]
Over the past few weeks we re-purposed every available horizontal shop surface, to stage our life’s detritus as we went about reorganizing the storage area. With the storage overhaul complete, the shop is back in action with more space than ever before. It’s so nice to be back – working in the shop is my meditation [...]
Living in the great northwest, one thing we have a lot of is trees. We’ve been contemplating how we could put this locally abundant resource to good use on several of our upcoming projects. We’ve got a garden shed, cottages, an outdoor kitchen and loads of other ideas we have yet to build. Obviously building [...]
