Day 52

1. Washing the potatoes that got dug up in October. They had been sitting in our garage. Like forever.
2. My gardening clogs look so good with my orange farm sweater.
3. Caulking the inside of a flower box
4. Brownies & milk, with a letter from Ellen!
5. Not pictured: My day getting completely rearranged ( I was supposed to go out for lunch with Scott and then Bible Study), praising the Lord that I haven't succumbed to the flu like the majority of my family and being thankful that no one is actually throwing up!, enjoying a free afternoon to just work on projects* that have been neglected since October *happy dance*, watching some Red October (love that movie!) and Monk, making brownies with Jacob, skyping with Rachel, watching New Girl


*Projects: I think I tend to like projects a little too much (I get obsessed) so when God gives me an afternoon to work on them it feels like a great big present! I'm learning to be thankful for little moments to work on my projects (and to not get sucked into them!).

Tah-dah!

Did you know that the phrase Tah-dah comes from the Hebrew word for thank you? At least I think it does. Because I've been learning some Hebrew (well, kind of, but not really) and in Hebrew "Thank you" sounds like Toh-Dah. At least to me it does. Aren't you glad you learned that? Although, here I mean it in the traditional American sense of "Look at this accomplishment!"

And now I have to go investigate a VERY loud purr that just started from my wardrobe. Just a sec. Okay, purring investigated. And yes, there is a cat in my wardrobe. And, yes, it really is a wardrobe  just like in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Although I don't keep fur coats in it. Just furry cats. Sometimes.

Anyways, I digress.

The house in it's current glory! We still need to paint the door.

And we are hoping to add shutters in the not to distant future.

And as long as we're talking big... 

expand the porch out and put in more landscaping. :)

Oh, and a bench swing! Definitely need one of those....

Also, notice the lights on either side of the door?

They started looking out like this. Stained and simply hideous brass. 

In fact, I rescued them from the garbage!

But add a little spray paint magic, and they're beautiful!

I love them so much now. Yay!

A painted house and other farm ramblings

So the house is done! *Little happy dance* To be honest, I think we are all pretty surprised that we actually got it done before the rains set in... there just nearly wasn't enough drama in getting it done to make it feel normal! So here's a mostly done shot of the house. It looks even better now that we got things cleaned up and put back but it's dark outside, so I don't think taking a picture this minute would fully capture the glamour. ;)






Here's a candid shot of some of the sheep at evening time. Overall, they're looking really good. In fact, we should have babies sometime soon. Like, I should figure this out... soon!  It helped that we had such a wet spring. We haven't had to feed them hay this summer.





And our back door. This gets the most improved award of our yard for this year. Especially now that the roses are blooming. The sunflowers have added a lot... I'm hoping next year to do sunflowers along the other side too!