Living Simply for a Better Life
This Saturday was frustrating because we kept running into problems and out of supplies, but we did accomplish some things. We started by taking out the window on the east side of the living room because it didn’t stay open and we discovered it had […]
I am the grateful recipient of a new egg candler, so now I don’t have to hold the flashlight with one hand and make a gasket on top with the other…leaving very few hands to hold the egg on top. It is just a simple design […]
We have been plagued with weekend rain lately. The one Saturday that was sunny was the day we had to make an airport run to pick up an aunt from her travels, so very little was done that day. Happily, our oldest girl was home […]
This past week, we saw an ad for a dishwasher for $75 and decided to look into it. We had originally planned to buy a new dishwasher, because of past experience with used ones, and buy all the other appliances used. However, this one was […]
Recently we bought an old metal incubator at a local flea mall. It was in perfect shape except for the heating element. We took the heating element out of our old styrofoam incubator (it has a hole in the bottom) and put it in the […]
Another Saturday with Brother-in-law extraordinaire and we accomplished more than we set out to do. The logs are all the way up and the two upstairs windows are in.
Once we had the eaves done, we treated all the wood with 2 layers of Timbor and then stained it all. We are using a neutral stain that we found at an overstock warehouse. It retails for over $30 per gallon, but they had it […]
The foundation wall and piers were finished today. Only a few more steps before the house itself gets started…we have to fill the holes in the blocks that contain the rebar (as seen in previous post) and digging out a few inches of the dirt […]