Won't be long now, and it could be sooner rather than later because truthfully? Hubby can not wait!
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited, too; but he more so because this is his home. :-)
So, while I would like to get a good night's sleep tomorrow he will most likely want to leave after work, which will mean no sleep until Friday night.
Because, yes, those few hours will make a big difference. ;)
I may be out of touch for a week or so but I'll check in when I can. I still have a little time tomorrow.
I didn't sleep well last night, so hopefully tonight.
And since we'll be out of town on Nov. 2nd, we're going to vote today. Remember, everyone to vote! It's your right and people have died to give it to you.
Happy Hump Day!
About Me
- LindaG
- Retired, housewife, mother of three. Picking up the pieces after God decided the 145 year old farmhouse was no longer the house for us. Praise God for His mercy and love!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Five days!
Happy Sunday to you all. :-)
I am going to post a few pictures of the house now. There is so much to be done.
Need to figure out how to get the roof work done and hoping that we don't have to tear off the new roof the last renter put on, to get it done. There's LOTS of repairs to do, just showing you a couple.
The porch will have to be replaced because whoever did that didn't have a clue. It's not tongue and groove either. Just flat boards...
There is still roofing stuff and trash to be hauled. It's on the screen porch - which needs a lot of work, too.
Inside the house, of course, I talked about the kitchen. Still bothers me, but that's the past and we'll make it ours now.
There's floors to refinish and repair.
Since they don't make the old tongue and groove boards any more - at least not the sizes that went into a house at the turn of the last century - we've decided we'll probably go with one of those 'floating' floors. The interlocking wood flooring made to go over old wood floors.
They did a lousy job of taking up the hallway floor. It had green tiles. I have no idea why they decided to take them up. Wish they would have done it better. The junk has all been hauled off.
The transoms all need repairing or replacing, and of course everything needs painting, too.
I despise pink...
Oh well. We'll definitely stay busy after we retire. I think we'll be looking for paint at clearance prices because we'll need way more paint than we'll have money. ;)
Hubby says there is a support under the sun room side of the house that he thinks needs replacing. That will be interesting. Not sure how we'll do that, though we have found a mill in Southern Louisiana that said they can cut it. The beam that's there now, if I remember right, is 12 feet by 10 inches by 10 inches. It's a BIG piece of wood. It might be 10 feet, but you get the idea. Will definitely need help for that.
Ah well. You all have a wonderful day and a great week! :-)
I am going to post a few pictures of the house now. There is so much to be done.
Need to figure out how to get the roof work done and hoping that we don't have to tear off the new roof the last renter put on, to get it done. There's LOTS of repairs to do, just showing you a couple.
The porch will have to be replaced because whoever did that didn't have a clue. It's not tongue and groove either. Just flat boards...
There's floors to refinish and repair.
They did a lousy job of taking up the hallway floor. It had green tiles. I have no idea why they decided to take them up. Wish they would have done it better. The junk has all been hauled off.
I despise pink...
Hubby says there is a support under the sun room side of the house that he thinks needs replacing. That will be interesting. Not sure how we'll do that, though we have found a mill in Southern Louisiana that said they can cut it. The beam that's there now, if I remember right, is 12 feet by 10 inches by 10 inches. It's a BIG piece of wood. It might be 10 feet, but you get the idea. Will definitely need help for that.
Ah well. You all have a wonderful day and a great week! :-)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
9 days!!!!
And this is what I see when I come to do a post. Image uploads will be disabled for two hours due to maintenance at 5:00PM PDT Wednesday, Oct. 20th. Learn more
There's nothing more to learn, btw. The linked page tells us the same thing.
Anyway, I thought I'd talk about what I call the Out Building. Don't know why I call it that, other than it's a building, and it's out, haha.
This building was actually part of the farm house at one time, back in the early 1900s.
When Eva Lou Joffrion's siblings had mostly moved out and they didn't need a farm house made of 3 houses, one (whether all or in part I've never been able to figure out exactly) was deconstructed and built in the back yard as a kind of utility building. They did their ironing out there, heating the irons in the fireplace; and they had a bulk storage sort of pantry out there. I don't remember if they did the wash there or not, but they might have.
My husband's family used it as a workshop to fix their tractors when they had a lot more acreage than is there now. It has a concrete pad, so in spite of the poor condition, again, if at all possible, I'd like to save at least a good bit of it.
And I do realize it is going to take a lot of work.
Let's see if I can upload any pictures today...
The building has definitely seen better days. The building used to have electricity, too, but the power line was cut at some point. This is what it looked like that first summer after his brother told us we could buy the property. He called us one night and asked us if we'd like it. *rolls eyes* Of course we jumped on it, even though we couldn't hardly see the property that first trip.
You can see there had been an initial mowing, but the out building can barely be seen.
Summer and fall pictures of the building.
There's holes like this on both sides of the roof, but not in the same area...
I am guessing here that someone wanted some sort of inside access to the roof, but really I'm clueless.
The leaks have done a lot of damage, of course.
And that's just on one side of the building.
We think they had animals here at one time. Maybe chickens...
That's the fireplace behind that... wall.
The building used to be one big "L" shaped room, but now it's two, I think. Maybe because someone used it to keep animals once? I wonder a lot, you can tell.
And of course the other side not only has a hole in the roof, and water damage, but more trash to be hauled.
And again, it's work that will wait until a while after we are finally moved in; but it would be nice to be able to clear around it enough to put one of those blue 'Southern roofs' on it. ;)
And by that, I mean to cover it with a tarp until we can get around to hopefully being able to have someone help us with that roof. Unlike some of my braver friends on the blogs I read, there is no way I would get on a roof this peaked, and certainly not in this condition.
And my husband isn't really able either, so hopefully we can find someone to do the work at a price we consider reasonable and can afford.
Or maybe we can barter work for fresh chicken and eggs...
Happy Wednesday, everyone! :-)
There's nothing more to learn, btw. The linked page tells us the same thing.
Anyway, I thought I'd talk about what I call the Out Building. Don't know why I call it that, other than it's a building, and it's out, haha.
This building was actually part of the farm house at one time, back in the early 1900s.
When Eva Lou Joffrion's siblings had mostly moved out and they didn't need a farm house made of 3 houses, one (whether all or in part I've never been able to figure out exactly) was deconstructed and built in the back yard as a kind of utility building. They did their ironing out there, heating the irons in the fireplace; and they had a bulk storage sort of pantry out there. I don't remember if they did the wash there or not, but they might have.
My husband's family used it as a workshop to fix their tractors when they had a lot more acreage than is there now. It has a concrete pad, so in spite of the poor condition, again, if at all possible, I'd like to save at least a good bit of it.
And I do realize it is going to take a lot of work.
Let's see if I can upload any pictures today...
The building has definitely seen better days. The building used to have electricity, too, but the power line was cut at some point. This is what it looked like that first summer after his brother told us we could buy the property. He called us one night and asked us if we'd like it. *rolls eyes* Of course we jumped on it, even though we couldn't hardly see the property that first trip.
Summer and fall pictures of the building.
There's holes like this on both sides of the roof, but not in the same area...
I am guessing here that someone wanted some sort of inside access to the roof, but really I'm clueless.
We think they had animals here at one time. Maybe chickens...
That's the fireplace behind that... wall.
The building used to be one big "L" shaped room, but now it's two, I think. Maybe because someone used it to keep animals once? I wonder a lot, you can tell.
And of course the other side not only has a hole in the roof, and water damage, but more trash to be hauled.
And by that, I mean to cover it with a tarp until we can get around to hopefully being able to have someone help us with that roof. Unlike some of my braver friends on the blogs I read, there is no way I would get on a roof this peaked, and certainly not in this condition.
And my husband isn't really able either, so hopefully we can find someone to do the work at a price we consider reasonable and can afford.
Or maybe we can barter work for fresh chicken and eggs...
Happy Wednesday, everyone! :-)
Sunday, October 17, 2010
12 days and not counting
So, I'm going to see if Blogger will be nice today.
I was going to talk about the barn. Hubby teased me that it wasn't a barn, but they used to have a small dairy when he was growing up and that was where they kept the cows. They got rid of them back in the 60s, I think, when farmers dumped their milk in ditches because they couldn't get paid what it cost them to make it.
Probably 50% of the barn needs to be torn down. But the center section is still mostly sound. We store stuff in it and it stays dry so I'm hoping we can at least save that section.
Here is what the barn usually looks like when we get there in the summer.
Well, that worked. Sort of. Only took three times as long to upload, but better than nothing.
So here is how the barn looks after we mow.<\strike>
Nope. One picture is all I get today. Ugh. Oh well. I don't
I tried something new. Uploaded to Google's Picasa Web album. That seems like it might have worked.
Anyway, you can't see it from here, but the left section where the hay is, and the right section behind all the green, probably needs to come down. I haven't been in the right section much, but the left section actually has the roof on the hay. That hay is OLD. When we were on the property in '94 that hay was there then. We'll probably till it under somewhere, or maybe just burn it, but that's way down the list for stuff that needs doing.
Here is how barn usually looks when we go in the fall.
Here is stuff that needs to be got rid of. Stuff that hubby doesn't even remember why it came to be there. The pipe that looks like fencing might have been from the fence they had to keep the dairy cattle in, but it's not really anything but trash any more.
And you can see where the main section needs work.
There is so much clearing to do though.
Happy Sunday all!
I was going to talk about the barn. Hubby teased me that it wasn't a barn, but they used to have a small dairy when he was growing up and that was where they kept the cows. They got rid of them back in the 60s, I think, when farmers dumped their milk in ditches because they couldn't get paid what it cost them to make it.
Probably 50% of the barn needs to be torn down. But the center section is still mostly sound. We store stuff in it and it stays dry so I'm hoping we can at least save that section.
Here is what the barn usually looks like when we get there in the summer.
So here is how the barn looks after we mow.
I tried something new. Uploaded to Google's Picasa Web album. That seems like it might have worked.
Anyway, you can't see it from here, but the left section where the hay is, and the right section behind all the green, probably needs to come down. I haven't been in the right section much, but the left section actually has the roof on the hay. That hay is OLD. When we were on the property in '94 that hay was there then. We'll probably till it under somewhere, or maybe just burn it, but that's way down the list for stuff that needs doing.
Here is how barn usually looks when we go in the fall.
Here is stuff that needs to be got rid of. Stuff that hubby doesn't even remember why it came to be there. The pipe that looks like fencing might have been from the fence they had to keep the dairy cattle in, but it's not really anything but trash any more.
And you can see where the main section needs work.
There is so much clearing to do though.
Happy Sunday all!
Friday, October 15, 2010
14 days to go!
Too long and not too long at the same time. I was going to post more, but today I am having trouble uploading pictures. I am disappointed.
Oh well. You all have a great weekend!
Oh well. You all have a great weekend!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
17 days and counting
No, we don't get excited to go work on the property. Not at all.
And of course the price of fuel jumped up about 10 cents a gallon this weekend. Got to love winter fuel prices.
So, I was talking with Gail over At the Farm, because her post about fixing the shed roof, quite frankly, made my toes tingle, haha.
I was telling her a bit about the property we work on and she mentioned to be sure I take pictures. Well, I do that, when I don't forget to charge the camera battery (spare battery and charger are packed). And I want to get another memory card. I know I have room. And I know how many pictures I can fit on a card - 963 on the last one - but I want a spare card anyway.
And I thought I'd post some pictures of some of the work that needs doing. I'll do a couple of posts because I don't know how many pictures blogger will let me show you, if any. I hear they are getting stingy about pictures.
Anyway.
This is something we need to remember and take care of. It has poked me before when mowing and I didn't know what it was. When it got hubby on the last trip, I went looking for it. This is just one picture. There are others in the May 2010 album linked to on the side of my blog. This one, pardon the pun, gets the point across.
Those spines are a good inch or more in length. The base of this thing is actually outside the fence. Near as I can tell from the shape of the leaves is that it is a 'Passion Vine', though I don't think we've ever seen flowers on it. How it got to be hanging from the corner oak, 10 feet inside the yard, I don't know. If I can figure out how to hold it, we'll trim it. I don't know any gloves that would not be pierced by it.
The pump house needs replacing, too. We replaced the pump last year, and then during that freeze a pipe broke, so we've decided we want to replace it - and insulate the pipes this year. Here's what it looks like now.
We haven't decided for sure yet, but we're thinking maybe some sort of small shed to put over it. It will need to cover the tank too.
We have a stump to pull, too. Remember I told you here about the old crepe myrtle we had to cut down. Well, we still need to pull that stump. I don't have a picture of the stump, but I'll show you the base of the crepe myrtle again.
So, now on to the garage. It's probably not a garage like a lot of you think of, but the Brother-in-law sent us a few old pictures last night, and there was actually a car in it! So yes, it was indeed a garage at one time. And possibly it had animals in it at one time because there is mesh fence on the front of it that we had to pull open to start cleaning it out. There is still a lot of junk to be hauled. And the roof needs repair, but I'd like to fix it, rather than tear it down because there is a concrete base of sorts on it. These pictures are not in a particular order. They are just some of the pictures I have taken over the two years we've been going there. Seems like a lot of time, but when you only get 4 weeks a year, it's not really that long at all.
I think we finally got all that green under control this last summer. Won't really get a good idea this fall, but we'll find out next spring for sure. In the third picture you can see what's left of the crepe myrtle that we need to pull. And we can't use it for firewood because there's no way to be sure we got all the termites.
See that little cluster of green pecans in about the center of this photo? We're hoping by going a little later this year that pecans like that will be ripe when we are there. Hubby wants to cut that tree down. It's had a little storm damage. I want to keep it, but he doesn't like it because it's what's called a 'papershell' pecan. That's exactly why I like it. They're easy for me to crack without a pecan cracker. But, in the scheme of things, I can compromise since he is willing to save the garage there. And we are planting more pecan trees and will be planting apples and pears and I haven't figured out what else yet, so yeah. Though I would prefer to keep it, if he wants it gone, I can live with that. I just don't want him to cut all the trees he wants to cut because 1- shade. 2- I like them and they take a LONG time to regrow 3- I don't want to change the character of the property too much. I know I'm 'emotional', what my mom used to call a 'sob sister' and such, but this property has spoken to me since I first saw it when he took me home to meet his parents back in the early '70s.
In the second picture you can clearly see the concrete that I was talking about. It's not on a slab like the outbuilding, but I think it's good enough that hopefully we can save it. It's part of that character thing I was talking about.
The garage has never had glass windows to my knowledge, just what you see. I think once we get the roof fixed, would be nice, maybe, to do something about that for when the hurricanes come through; but then maybe that's why it's never had glass...
As you can see, we still have a lot of trash to haul out of the garage. I was real happy to see the screens up in the rafters though. I think window screens and maybe a screen door or two as well. I'm hoping they're in good condition so we can use the windows in the house - though the windows still need a lot of work, too. Sash windows I think they are - the ones that use the weights and pulley ropes? They all need repairing. May just replace them, but then again... In spite of the character of the house, it might be more cost effective to have them replaced.
See that rusty orange thing back under the window of the bottom picture? That's all that is left of the metal cabinets that used to be in the house. We're going to have it sanded and paint it and I think it's going to go into the 'laundry room'.
Wow. This is a huge post. lol. I think I should end it. My foot hurts. I tipped a tool box over on it. It wasn't a big one. And it just had nails, bolts, screws, washers, stuff like that in it, but I was in bare feet and I have a lump on my foot and it still hurts. But at least I am pretty much over my cold. The tool box has been moved to a bin on the trailer because we always need what's in it at the farm house. And we'll add to it. Because he has his new saw to use, which has also been packed. I should take a picture of our trailer. It's not completely finished being packed. Still have another bin to put on and we need to finish filling them, but yeah. It's pretty much ready 17 days early.
For those of you who watch TV, am I the only one who thinks 90 percent or more of the commercials are designed to make people stupid?
And one of our favorite shows right now? Swamp People. I like all the swampers on the show, but I like Troy best. He seems the most... well rounded, I think. Him and his family. If I couldn't live on the farm, I think I would like to live in a house like his.
Happy Tuesday all!
And of course the price of fuel jumped up about 10 cents a gallon this weekend. Got to love winter fuel prices.
So, I was talking with Gail over At the Farm, because her post about fixing the shed roof, quite frankly, made my toes tingle, haha.
I was telling her a bit about the property we work on and she mentioned to be sure I take pictures. Well, I do that, when I don't forget to charge the camera battery (spare battery and charger are packed). And I want to get another memory card. I know I have room. And I know how many pictures I can fit on a card - 963 on the last one - but I want a spare card anyway.
And I thought I'd post some pictures of some of the work that needs doing. I'll do a couple of posts because I don't know how many pictures blogger will let me show you, if any. I hear they are getting stingy about pictures.
Anyway.
This is something we need to remember and take care of. It has poked me before when mowing and I didn't know what it was. When it got hubby on the last trip, I went looking for it. This is just one picture. There are others in the May 2010 album linked to on the side of my blog. This one, pardon the pun, gets the point across.
Those spines are a good inch or more in length. The base of this thing is actually outside the fence. Near as I can tell from the shape of the leaves is that it is a 'Passion Vine', though I don't think we've ever seen flowers on it. How it got to be hanging from the corner oak, 10 feet inside the yard, I don't know. If I can figure out how to hold it, we'll trim it. I don't know any gloves that would not be pierced by it.
The pump house needs replacing, too. We replaced the pump last year, and then during that freeze a pipe broke, so we've decided we want to replace it - and insulate the pipes this year. Here's what it looks like now.
We haven't decided for sure yet, but we're thinking maybe some sort of small shed to put over it. It will need to cover the tank too.
We have a stump to pull, too. Remember I told you here about the old crepe myrtle we had to cut down. Well, we still need to pull that stump. I don't have a picture of the stump, but I'll show you the base of the crepe myrtle again.
So, now on to the garage. It's probably not a garage like a lot of you think of, but the Brother-in-law sent us a few old pictures last night, and there was actually a car in it! So yes, it was indeed a garage at one time. And possibly it had animals in it at one time because there is mesh fence on the front of it that we had to pull open to start cleaning it out. There is still a lot of junk to be hauled. And the roof needs repair, but I'd like to fix it, rather than tear it down because there is a concrete base of sorts on it. These pictures are not in a particular order. They are just some of the pictures I have taken over the two years we've been going there. Seems like a lot of time, but when you only get 4 weeks a year, it's not really that long at all.
See that little cluster of green pecans in about the center of this photo? We're hoping by going a little later this year that pecans like that will be ripe when we are there. Hubby wants to cut that tree down. It's had a little storm damage. I want to keep it, but he doesn't like it because it's what's called a 'papershell' pecan. That's exactly why I like it. They're easy for me to crack without a pecan cracker. But, in the scheme of things, I can compromise since he is willing to save the garage there. And we are planting more pecan trees and will be planting apples and pears and I haven't figured out what else yet, so yeah. Though I would prefer to keep it, if he wants it gone, I can live with that. I just don't want him to cut all the trees he wants to cut because 1- shade. 2- I like them and they take a LONG time to regrow 3- I don't want to change the character of the property too much. I know I'm 'emotional', what my mom used to call a 'sob sister' and such, but this property has spoken to me since I first saw it when he took me home to meet his parents back in the early '70s.
In the second picture you can clearly see the concrete that I was talking about. It's not on a slab like the outbuilding, but I think it's good enough that hopefully we can save it. It's part of that character thing I was talking about.
The garage has never had glass windows to my knowledge, just what you see. I think once we get the roof fixed, would be nice, maybe, to do something about that for when the hurricanes come through; but then maybe that's why it's never had glass...
As you can see, we still have a lot of trash to haul out of the garage. I was real happy to see the screens up in the rafters though. I think window screens and maybe a screen door or two as well. I'm hoping they're in good condition so we can use the windows in the house - though the windows still need a lot of work, too. Sash windows I think they are - the ones that use the weights and pulley ropes? They all need repairing. May just replace them, but then again... In spite of the character of the house, it might be more cost effective to have them replaced.
See that rusty orange thing back under the window of the bottom picture? That's all that is left of the metal cabinets that used to be in the house. We're going to have it sanded and paint it and I think it's going to go into the 'laundry room'.
Wow. This is a huge post. lol. I think I should end it. My foot hurts. I tipped a tool box over on it. It wasn't a big one. And it just had nails, bolts, screws, washers, stuff like that in it, but I was in bare feet and I have a lump on my foot and it still hurts. But at least I am pretty much over my cold. The tool box has been moved to a bin on the trailer because we always need what's in it at the farm house. And we'll add to it. Because he has his new saw to use, which has also been packed. I should take a picture of our trailer. It's not completely finished being packed. Still have another bin to put on and we need to finish filling them, but yeah. It's pretty much ready 17 days early.
For those of you who watch TV, am I the only one who thinks 90 percent or more of the commercials are designed to make people stupid?
And one of our favorite shows right now? Swamp People. I like all the swampers on the show, but I like Troy best. He seems the most... well rounded, I think. Him and his family. If I couldn't live on the farm, I think I would like to live in a house like his.
Happy Tuesday all!
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