My kids love going on bike rides. I like to think it's for the exercise, but I'm pretty sure its just because it's like a free yard sale. Along the way they find all sorts of treasures: flowers, rocks, screws, springs... What ever catches their eye they have to stop and inspect it. A lot of it ends up coming home with us. The girls have an easy time toting their finds. They have cute … [Read more...]
Random Thoughts – Tangled Webs
Oh, what a tangled web we weave When in a bountiful garden we believe. I love having a garden. Everything tastes so much better when it is home grown. What I love even more is that the garden is my husband's hobby! He does such a wonderful job at it and I get to enjoy fresh veggies. How about those homemade trellises? They make me smile. They may look like a tangled web but … [Read more...]
Shed to School House Makeover – Rebuild
So this is where we were after the demo had been completed. Walls and floors had been torn out. Ants and mice and their nests had been removed. We were down to the studs and a clean slate. Rebuilding took a lot longer than I imagined it would. I needed a lot of help from Ben. He had work and his own projects going on elsewhere on the property, but he took a couple of weekends to get me … [Read more...]
Shed to School House Makeover – demo
Home schooling my kiddos is very rewarding. Seeing them go from learning their letters and numbers to reading novels and starting to understand algebra makes me so proud. Over all it's pretty gratifying, but the day to day challenges can be quite overwhelming. Watching them struggle with a new concept is hard. I want to jump in and make it easy, but I know that if they work at it, it will … [Read more...]
Metal Rack Makeover
Look what my father-in-law brought me! Pretty cool, right? Okay, so maybe you don't see what I see and that's perfectly fine. I think I can make you come around. My father-in-law offered it to me this last summer, but at the time we had just moved across country and were staying with them until we closed on our house so I had no where to take it. And once we were in our new house I had … [Read more...]