Living Simply for a Better Life
After some delays, we are finally making progress on the cabin again! Last week, the inspector came out and we passed the rough plumbing and electrical inspection and we have started on the interior. Our first priority was to get the insulation up before we […]
These last few weeks have been very busy and we’ve gotten many things done here, but not all cabin work. The girls have been wrapping up the school year, which included final drafts on research papers, exams, and a weekend trip to TN to pick […]
We have been horribly busy this last few weeks with not only duties here, but other things life brings. It feels like we never stop (actually, it’s not just a feeling come to think about it) and we never get enough done. We are plodding […]
We worked this past Saturday and took two days off work this week to get as much as we could on the cabin. We got lathe, insulation, boards, Timbor x 2, and stain on the back of the upstairs, as well as the second upstairs […]
Recently we were blessed to find out about a warehouse sale, where a contractor was cleaning out old odds and ends to make more space. This door latch is one of the best buys we made. It’s a really good door set, with dead bolt […]
Last Saturday we made alot of progress on the cabin. We were able to get half of the chinking done on the front, and trim on the top two windows. This allowed us to take the top layer of scaffolding off and then during the […]
Before we get started on the rough plumbing inside the house, we needed to finish up the waste line tying into the septic tank. We dug the ditch way back in the beginning and ran the line from the house to within a few feet […]
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 […]