Welcome to our new blog!

This is our new blog so we can keep you up to date on the progress of our house and property.  I'll also show you how we manage to live without any running water, electricity or gas.  Join us at our little house on the prairie!  

This is what our house looks like now.  I'll be filling in the blanks with pictures as I have time.  It's come a long way, but at a very slow pace.  We're hoping to get it totally closed up and move in before "Old Man Winter" comes for a visit.  Then we can be working on the inside as the storm rages outside!

We have installed the north steel roof, one chimney, the front door, two north windows and one east window.  Our house is going to be white and we are staining the wood before we put it on so, as you can see, it has a "finished" look to it as we get the siding on.  The left window is our kitchen and the little shotgun window is in our pantry.

This is the east side of our house.  It's hard to tell in the picture, but behind the ladder is our kitchen window and it's installed.  That whole section has been sided-- at least we can say that something is complete!

And one last picture... our new foxhound, Patsy.

She was one in April.  I got her for my contractor for his birthday.  We've only had her since June, but she has won over our hearts and since we are "empty-nesters", she is our new "baby".