Monday, June 20, 2011

Baby Steps


So this is the start of our humble abode. You can see the latest, and absolutely necessary, project-an opening window! I love the view from the old picture window, and the fact that we reused it from my gram's old house, but no airflow made the cabin like a sauna. We will hopefully replace the second window in the next week or so. The cabin is two rooms made from closing in hubby's tractor shed, and we built on a small room for a kitchen last fall. We will be replacing the wooden doors next,  possibly moving the door to the side of the room, and putting in a nice window so that I can look out over the field when I am working in the kitchen. With plans for living full time in the future there are lots of new ideas.

We spent a few nights this week, and the kids finally got their campers cleaned out and got to stay over too. We put up badminton net and will put in horseshoe pits so that they have something to keep them busy and get some exercise. We are researching windmills and how to get water up to the cabin from the spring. Having no water is the biggest drawback of living up there. We can manage okay without the electric, but have GOT to get water. Our worry in drilling a well is that we will ruin the spring that we have used for all these years. So we have our thinking caps on to see what our next step should be.

In the meantime, we have started our baby steps.

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