Why is it that when people come out to visit they feel as if they have to tell us how much longer it will take to build the house? “Oh, ya’ll will never be done next month!” “Whew, this is gonna take you guys a while to finish up, isn’t it?” Ahh! I feel like saying “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all!”
Anyway, this past week we made a lot of progress on the cordwood. The two walls in the kitchen are completely done, inside and out! I just need to clean up the kitchen floor and we will be ready for cabinets this week!
We also worked on the walls by the front door, and we put our fishy in!!! Isn’t it awesome??!! So, we have 2 walls completely done, 4 walls that just need a small amount of interior work, and 2 walls to finish 1/2 or less in wood. Maybe 3 or 4 more days or cordwooding!! Wooohooo!!
While we worked this weekend, Kaiaflower entertained herself by opening up a Chocolate Lounge and making us all pies!
We found a great serving hutch (use to be used for silverware) that we are going to use as our vanity in the lower bathroom. We are going to put a 2 inch slab of oak on top and set the sink in it. Hope to work on that this week… I’ll post pictures.
We also redid the chicken coop. We took all the trashy chicken wire down and put up 5 foot fencing, made a great little gate, and clipped the chickens wings. Hopefully this will keep them in long enough for me to get some clover seed growing in the field. (I also have some oats to seed so I can harvest them for medicine)
I have seen it in person, and it is really fantastic. How wonderful it must feel to know you did this yourself.
However, the chickens gave me a message to give to you,”Let us out!!!!!” By the way, those are the best looking chickens. I did not know they could be so pretty.
my chickens are quite pissed at me for yanking their flying rights away. no more raiding the garden for them! (of course still let them loose in the afternoon but we’ve been doing it later so they have less time to destroy).
i love the fish and bubbles!
I love the pretty blue fishy! It looks neat-o.
I love the fish — and don’t listen to the nay-sayers.
I think, for some people, that tendency to come across as negative is reflective of the ways in which they have talked themselves out of following their own dreams. “Oh, I could never do that…it would take so long!” or “I’d love to try something like this…but of course I couldn’t because _fill_in_the_blank_here.” and those “excuses” just pop out almost automatically when they’re in the presence of someone who really is following their dreams, and perhaps following a dream that the person being negative may really admire and want to follow, too, but may not have found the courage or the personal reserves to say, “Yes…yes I CAN do this!” It’s always much safer to think of a million reasons why you SHOULDN’T do something than to roll up your sleeves, get to work, and perhaps even risk fantastic failure (but also roll the dice on phenomenal success!) in pursuit of your dreams.
Thanks Kathy! I totally agree! It’s the naysayers, who are too scared to follow their own dreams, who tend to be the experts on what we can’t accomplish on our house. No one I know has ever done anything like this before, so I don’t see how anyone can comment on what we are up against or how hard it will be or how long it is going to take us. It’s so frustrating. Especially when most of the time I feel like I’m just hanging on by a string, desperate to get this house done, and then I heard, “oh it will be at least June before you all are done!” or “this thing is going to get taken down by termites since you didn’t treat the wood with chemicals!”
Thank you for your positive thoughts!