I know that everyone has been waiting on the edge of their seats to watch a badly shot, fifteen minute iPhone video of me rambling on (with my awesome Midwestern…

Today was the big sign-your-name-and-several-years-of-your-life-away-so-you-can-call-a-150-year-old-farmhouse-home day. Guess what banks, appraisers, and shady online auctioning companies? I. Win. And now I get to officially call The Liberty House home. This has…

Next week I plan to hit the ground running with the repairs that are being required by the bank to get my huge chunk of cash out of escrow. The…

This week it’s going to be the last push to get over The Great Battle of Paperwork that has consumed the last month of my life. I was hoping dive…

There was a point in time where I thought I’d be jumping up and down in joy (having cleared the remaining red tape from this house without being jailed for…

Most of last week was spent battling my way back through forty-eight hours of 102-degree fever, three days of waiting to hear back from the property appraiser and bank, one…

I’m still in the process of disentangling myself from all of the red-tape surrounding buying a house at auction, so in an effort to feel more in control of things,…

Taken this morning on the way to The Liberty House, which is just over that hill. I found out today that the road home is going to be a little…

You know what they say about pets and houses… don’t name them unless you plan to keep them. Well, it looks like–godwilling– I’m keeping this one mostly intact, so for…

You might get the impression from this website that I like to be in control. (If you didn’t get that impression… refer back to the two year period of time…

If these plans look a little rumpled it’s definitely not because I’ve been sleeping snuggled up to them for the last week. I swear. I actually hauled my old dining…

Here’s how I kicked off the week. I already had a jump-start on feeling awesome with the successful Moonshine Lamp project that I knocked out over the weekend and I…

When I decided to rent an old farm house with a bunch of falling down buildings on the property there was a general debate going on in my family about…