Well, That’s Different
After a number of years with just exposed OSB subfloor (and a couple of rugs) as the flooring in my kitchen… It now has (part of) a floor. Do not be fooled by that picture. It is still mostly this… I have
Adventures in Beekeeping: Year Two Begins
If all of the sink drama occurring two weeks ago wasn’t enough, in the middle of all of that (and a week after I expected them) my two new packages of bees came in. !!!!!!! (This requires excessive exclamation points.) By “came in”
One Really Big Sink
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 thing is a magic wand that I can wave and the dishes are magically done… that I would
Kitchen Update: The Part Where It Starts to Get… Better?
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 the kitchen. Do you know why? Because I effing hate sanding ceilings, apparently. That’s where I got
Farm Adventures: Spring 2016
It’s been an incredibly stressful couple of weeks around here– the kind of weeks where I feel like I’m just barely keeping things together– and in the middle of all of it I decided to do what any sane, rational person does at
The First Best Day
This is my fifth spring on the farm, and I still haven’t gotten used to how quickly things go from waiting, waiting, waiting for the weather to warm up (I mean, two weeks ago we had 4″ of snow on the ground) and
Liberty Kitchen Progress: Update & Plans
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 any kind of logical fashion. The only thing I can say for certain is that there is,
Better-Worse-Soaked: A Kitchen Update
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 described as a complete shitshow culminating in, well, this… About five minutes before I was supposed to
A Woman’s Place is In The Kitchen (With a Hammer Drill, Obv)
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 normally that list would have been a little, ah, overly optimistic for one person to complete in
So This Is How This Is Going To Go: Kitchen Remodel Edition
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 wine, and we drank half of it while sitting at the kitchen table talking about life before
Victory Lap: Year Four
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 and toasted to the adventures to come. It’s a tradition I repeat every year… 2016: 2012: I
Unpacking & Repacking
I’m having a hard time sitting down to write anything, and that’s because half of my house is way too organized right now and the other half is like… I’m probably never going to because to find a measuring cup or plastic
Adventures in Beekeeping: Mead Making
With the two hives I established this year I got about 3 gallons of honey and 20+ containers of cut-comb, which as far as I can tell is unheard of for new beekeepers. And I jarred a lot of it… But at
The Treasure Room
There’s a room in the house I don’t often talk about. Years ago, I used to call it the “tool room”, but, as it turns out, the tools I own will never be confined to just one room in this house, and
Adventures in Beekeeping: Thermal Imaging & Winter Update
I have to say that 2015 was filled with all kinds of awesome, but one of my very favorite things about last year was the bees… I’m still a very novice beekeeper, but I’m also totally hooked. My last update on the
Wood & Pipe Wall Shelves for the Laundry Room
Let’s just go ahead and add this to the list of Things I Should Have Done Four Years Ago But Didn’t Because I Like My Life to Be Difficult and A Complete Disaster. The thing is, this wall above the washer and dryer
Adventures in Beekeeping: Year Two Begins
If all of the sink drama occurring two weeks ago wasn’t enough, in the middle of all of that (and a week after I expected them) my two new packages of bees came in. !!!!!!! (This requires excessive exclamation points.) By “came in”
One Really Big Sink
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 thing is a magic wand that I can wave and the dishes are magically done… that I would
Kitchen Update: The Part Where It Starts to Get… Better?
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 the kitchen. Do you know why? Because I effing hate sanding ceilings, apparently. That’s where I got
Farm Adventures: Spring 2016
It’s been an incredibly stressful couple of weeks around here– the kind of weeks where I feel like I’m just barely keeping things together– and in the middle of all of it I decided to do what any sane, rational person does at
The First Best Day
This is my fifth spring on the farm, and I still haven’t gotten used to how quickly things go from waiting, waiting, waiting for the weather to warm up (I mean, two weeks ago we had 4″ of snow on the ground) and
Liberty Kitchen Progress: Update & Plans
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 any kind of logical fashion. The only thing I can say for certain is that there is,
Better-Worse-Soaked: A Kitchen Update
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 described as a complete shitshow culminating in, well, this… About five minutes before I was supposed to
A Woman’s Place is In The Kitchen (With a Hammer Drill, Obv)
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 normally that list would have been a little, ah, overly optimistic for one person to complete in
So This Is How This Is Going To Go: Kitchen Remodel Edition
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 wine, and we drank half of it while sitting at the kitchen table talking about life before
Victory Lap: Year Four
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 and toasted to the adventures to come. It’s a tradition I repeat every year… 2016: 2012: I
Unpacking & Repacking
I’m having a hard time sitting down to write anything, and that’s because half of my house is way too organized right now and the other half is like… I’m probably never going to because to find a measuring cup or plastic
Adventures in Beekeeping: Mead Making
With the two hives I established this year I got about 3 gallons of honey and 20+ containers of cut-comb, which as far as I can tell is unheard of for new beekeepers. And I jarred a lot of it… But at
The Treasure Room
There’s a room in the house I don’t often talk about. Years ago, I used to call it the “tool room”, but, as it turns out, the tools I own will never be confined to just one room in this house, and
Adventures in Beekeeping: Thermal Imaging & Winter Update
I have to say that 2015 was filled with all kinds of awesome, but one of my very favorite things about last year was the bees… I’m still a very novice beekeeper, but I’m also totally hooked. My last update on the
Wood & Pipe Wall Shelves for the Laundry Room
Let’s just go ahead and add this to the list of Things I Should Have Done Four Years Ago But Didn’t Because I Like My Life to Be Difficult and A Complete Disaster. The thing is, this wall above the washer and dryer
