The Farm & Very Old House – Page 3

So Long 2016

January 3, 2017 14 Comments

About this time last year–when I was looking back and reflecting on what I’d gotten done–I called 2015 “the best year yet.” I got so much

The Missing Chicken

December 5, 2016 12 Comments

It doesn’t feel like I’ve been sharing a lot of good news on the blog recently, so– spoiler alert– my two most recent farm stories

Vineyard Update: Summer 2016

August 15, 2016 9 Comments

If you asked me to summarize what starting a small vineyard on my property this year has been like I’d say roughly 50% digging holes and

Orchard Update: Summer 2016

August 14, 2016 22 Comments

At pretty much any point in my life prior to living on this farm, my thought process around learning and/or doing new things went something

New Additions: Summer 2016

July 17, 2016 15 Comments

Back in January I had a premonition that I might be new additions of some kind to the farm… Yeah. I even put it on

Places to Sit

July 6, 2016 25 Comments

For a piece of property that leaves almost no time for just sitting around, I’ve been oddly obsessed with creating places to sit around the

That Damned Vegetable Garden

June 13, 2016 26 Comments

Of all the things I talked about working on over my “break” a couple of weeks ago, the vegetable garden was noticeably absent. Or, as I’ve

Farm Adventures: An Update

May 19, 2016 31 Comments

A few weeks ago I mentioned that things were about to get real exciting on the farm… One of those exciting things was that I

One Really Big Sink

May 11, 2016 25 Comments

As a general rule, I do not get excited about things that are related to doing the dishes. (Shocking, I know.) I mean, unless the

Kitchen Update: The Part Where It Starts to Get… Better?

May 3, 2016 33 Comments

It’s been 3 weeks since I’ve said anything meaningful about the kitchen, mostly because I haven’t felt like there’s been anything meaningful going on in

Liberty Kitchen Progress: Update & Plans

April 5, 2016 25 Comments

At this point there’s almost no way to share all of the things that are going on around the house and in my head in

Better-Worse-Soaked: A Kitchen Update

March 31, 2016 11 Comments

At some point on Sunday night things related to the kitchen remodel started to snowball, and by Monday morning it reached what can best be

A Woman’s Place is In The Kitchen (With a Hammer Drill, Obv)

March 22, 2016 45 Comments

Okay, so Friday I made a bold statement about all the things I was going to get done on the kitchen over the weekend, and

So This Is How This Is Going To Go: Kitchen Remodel Edition

March 17, 2016 18 Comments

Last Sunday my mom came up to the farm to “help me with the kitchen remodel” which basically means she brought up a bottle of

Victory Lap: Year Four

March 7, 2016 26 Comments

Today is four years to the day since I closed on this property and then immediately drove out to the house with a bottle of champagne

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Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.

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