I heard earlier today that there might be a geostorm tonight so I was waiting and watching for comments on the aroura page… i went out to take the garbage out and sure enough the sky was lit up.
These pictures were taken with my cell phone in the front yard, on the front porch and in the back yard. How absolutely awesome.
It was exactly this week last year, our lives changed dramatically. We didn’t have any idea what we were in store for…. so many emotions, feelings, tears, and hope for tomorrow. We had no idea if I would be here this year, considering the diagnosis… if I would be well enough, really we didnt know what God would do. It started with awesome walks on the trail and being a fun loving dog mom to two chocolate lab pups… to many tests and procedures and many weekly appointments to the hospital and cancer center, with lots of uncertainty but lots of trust in God… and milestones to reach. We celebrated Thanksgiving this past October with such joy and thankfulness. God gave us the wisdom and knowledge we asked for. A peace that surpassed all understand, an incredible hope for tomorrow and strength we couldn’t imagine. So many scripture verses come to mind but I will leave that to our blog update. Coming soon♡ Vanessa
We have a strip of drywall to go on the bottomed then it is ready for seam filling. Yes that is our precious canned jars on the floor. We had to move the shelf.
You are probably wondering why the drywall did not go all the way to the doorway opening 🤔 well that is because the new opening is gonna be wider.
Yes, the plumbing will eventually be hidden too.
Yes, I did say the “w” word. It’s hard to believe but we are half way through September and we have a big homestead chore to finish.
We heat our house primarily with wood, so every year Matt or Joey delivers our logs. Rusty cuts them to the appropriate size and I usually load up the tractor and they get stacked.
This year Rusty is doing most of the wood chore, I am helping when I can but most of it is his responsibility. He has been hard at work cutting and stacking. We have about 2+ chord of wood through the basement window that just needs to be split and stacked. That will be my chore once most of the canning and preserving is done.
We do share the responsibility of getting the wood prepped and it is such a nice feeling when most of it is stacked and ready to go.
It was such a beautiful day today so while I worked on a few garden chores and some canning prep my awesome hubby stacked…♡♡
In the last picture you can see my log splitter…. nifty little thing… makes great kindling too♡ Vanessa
Just a little update since it’s been so long♡ when we first did the insulation in this room it was just temporary.
Some elderberry cuttings came in the mail all the way from BC, so very excited:)
What do you do you with a bunch of half empty cans of paint? You mix them together and make your own awesome farmhouse shade. (Stuck at home: practicing social distancing)
Who said you can’t play with mud when you grow up?
I know it’s not Wednesday, we were busy I thought that I posted our picture.
We are finishing an upstairs closet:)
Our Old Island Home 