Whew! Only eleven days since we closed on our small-town Victorian (with Thanksgiving smack-dab in the middle), and Renaissance Man and I are being not-so-kindly reminded by our bodies that we are 13 years older than we were the last time we renovated a house! What, pray tell, have we done? 😅 But don't worry. This post isn't about aches and pains, but about PROGRESS. Even if you follow @smalltownvictorian on Instagram (thank you for that!), I promise blog posts will have a lot more pics and details, so here we go . . . We knew when we bought the house that both HVAC units were long overdue for replacement, so right off the bat, we had to tackle that. It's a real bummer when the first big ... Keep Reading...
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THE FINALLY FARMHOUSE THAT WASN’T . . . When one adventure ends, another begins
Today Renaissance Man and I became the new owners of this 1908 small-town Victorian. I sure didn't see this coming . . . Dear old house, What a surprise you are! We weren’t supposed to be together—or so I never dreamed. You sit pretty in the small town I moved out of when we sold our last big, beautiful old house and moved to the country. By now we thought we’d have built and started enjoying our smaller, new-to-look-old farmhouse — but Life happened . . . and happened . . . and happened again. Two years almost to the day after saying goodbye to our old house and living in a fifth wheel onsite at the farm—ready to build “any day now” — our Finally Farmhouse dream is ... Keep Reading...
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Five Minute Friday: RUSH
It's time for Five Minute Friday where every week there's a new word prompt encouraging five minutes of unedited writing. Today's prompt is START It's a never-ending battle, this learning to not rush through the days. They're full - FULL - of so many good things, but they're sometimes distracting. Sometimes not full of the best things, and rushing makes it easy to overlook that fact. If there's one thing I'm learning during these (so far!) 21 months of living in a fifth wheel and trying to get a house built is that rushing doesn't make things move any faster; it just complicates them. I'm learning to listen to that Voice that says, Be still, and I know that I am ... Keep Reading...
