It seems unreasonable to me that we are already kissing October. I haven't really adjusted to summer being over and the fact that I a...

Girls rock brick, that is! Remember the brick walk from last summer?  This is from last summer's major project- tons of brick...

You are probably sick of seeing pictures of my house by now. Sorry, but this is what has consumed our summer world. Some day soon, we...

I went on the front porch roof to paint, climbing out my bedroom window and feeling very brave indeed. I was fine until I turned away from ...

That's where we live. Check out these brave people I live with. Dr. Dh up high on the ladder, painting the eves. He was up that high...

What can two 50 year olds + an 18, 13 and 10 year old get done in a day? A whole lotta painting, that's what. (along with a whol...

Summer School 'round here has included some brushes and 5 gallons buckets! The scaffolding has been up for a few days and we've be...

Summer sounds: Scratch, scritchity, scrape, scrape, scrape.  

We've got ourselves a little summer project going on....     In between practicing lines for King Lear (Shakespeare Camp, comi...

where the stairs to the basement used to be, next to where the kitchen floor used to be... If you homeschool for any length of time, c...

  Like so many things,  our mancala board didn't make it through the fire. However, when you are in need of a game that is fast,...

  "Not mint-chip walls!"   This is what happens when you send 2 males to take a picture- Oy vey. We finally painted F...

This, my friends, is the humble beginning of an inexpensive and finished looking basement floor.   An Oregon Cottage has a terrific...

We haven't been doing too many really cool homeschool lap books, unit studies or crafts, much to Flower's chagrin. Mainly 'c...

 So, we gutted the entire first floor and basement. In fact, at one point there was an 18' hole in the house! Our contractor finished...

So, what's with the Tear Down to Build Up posts? Well, 3 years ago- almost to the day- October 24- we were burned out of our house. We ...

Just another never ending project -the 2nd floor doors. We kept the originals, but sanded, stained and polyurethaned them. The hings and sc...

This is the brick side-walk we finally finished 2 week-ends ago. Dr. Dh has been wanting to mess with it since. (Actually he...