February 13, 2020

We finally started on the main house. We’ve learned that it had been added on to at least 2 times, maybe 3. Some walls are sheetrock and others are lath and plaster. There is exterior siding on interior walls! We’ve not had too many “scary” surprises, but it is a MESSY job. Katie got to get new tools because we each needed a pry bar and hammer, and they all match (her phone and car are red, too)!

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The wood floors in the new master bedroom are in excellent condition. We will have to install laminate everywhere else.

We finally got a plug installed to run our dryer – 4 months without a dryer was enough!

We had a contractor out to give us advice on removing interior walls and installing headers. I can’t wait to start on that and open the house up! We will continue gutting the house and then turn our attention to demolding the crawl space and putting in a vapor barrier.

In other news, we moved 5 of our bee hives to the farm. They had been at a friend’s property about 25 minutes away. It will be nice to not have to travel so far to tend to the bees. And it was a good thing we moved them when we did. It snowed the next day!

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We also had apple experts from our local Extension Office visit our farm to give us advice on starting our orchard. The first 30 trees will arrive in late March/early April. If you happen to have a backhoe and want to dig a few drainage ditches, let us know.