tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82362670867979968832024-03-05T10:23:50.815-07:00Building Our Little House On The PrairieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8236267086797996883.post-54419258878095968812013-06-09T13:23:00.000-06:002013-06-09T13:23:41.483-06:00West Side StoryWell for you dedicated "Building Our Little House" blog readers, I apologize for the long delay in posts. Life gets busy and let me tell you, you would have gotten bored with our slow progress anyway -- there is soooo much siding and it's hard to think of interesting ways to blog about it. <br />
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Anyway, our whole North side is completely sided, as you can tell... Looks nice, huh?<br />
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Today begins our West Side Story -- the siding of the last side -- the west side! Then we can completely move to getting the inside drywalled and insulated before next winter. We were so proud of ourselves to make it alive through the winter here with our drafty, half-sided, non-insulated house! It will be a badge of honor we will wear with pride and I'm sure almost might get us adopted in as natives!<br />
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Well, that pretty much gets you up-to-date with our building. We have done some work with drywall on the inside but not enough to post about. I'll pick up on that later.<br />
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I'm sure most of you readers have heard about the new adventure I'm heading into (if not, give me a call). I just want to tell you about the fantastic hospital that is taking care of me -- everyone has been so caring and friendly. Anyway, yesterday I was getting my hair cut and the lady getting hers done next to me overheard me and she told me she worked there (she also thought she was in the outpatient surgery on my biopsy). Anyway, she shared this music video that the hospital had made on breast cancer awareness and it is totally cute. My doctor is in it and he really has the moves! I haven't seen that side of him yet -- when he got my diagnosis back he was so happy he told me he did jumping jacks in the office -- I thought that was as excited as he got. Well, I'm wrong. Check out his moves in the great music video (he's the one with the lights on his hat and in his hand). <br />
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The South side is completely sided and all the windows are installed. Doesn't it look nice? Lots of white, huh? Yes, our color scheme is white with a white roof. We do have some color-- you can't really tell in the picture, but the window in the center has barn-red trim on the window. It is white trim around the window, but he metal on the window is red. Like I said, you can't really see it in the picture. The middle and right windows are casement, but the window on the left is a fixed window. It will be near our stairs, so we thought it shouldn't open.<br />
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You can see a little bit of my garden in the foreground. It's growing really well. I have onions, radishes, lettuces, bok choi, chard, green beans, and lima beans planted so far. Here's a closer picture.<br />
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Aren't my markers cute? They are tin can lids that have been punched with the kind of veggie on it. These are my onions and radishes. I've also started making the borders on my beds-- it is made out of soda bottles that are filled with dirt and turned upside down and stuck in the ground. I will eventually have borders around all my beds. I think they will be really cute!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8236267086797996883.post-75167951784264390732012-03-20T21:16:00.000-06:002012-03-20T21:16:06.394-06:00Bouncing Off The Windows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0PLJQAYe7fKRom3sMtOZ4__KW_xt-TbCNpaMmP3PGBaOY98oGAYt_bBHEwtiUQX2P4LmtjaKhVV0VlvJX5xvDjrKQheyp5_CmfCWRTh5ihMQ8C5w6_IO23bWvPQnwv2wAQDsieogtNlrt/s1600/IMG_4853.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0PLJQAYe7fKRom3sMtOZ4__KW_xt-TbCNpaMmP3PGBaOY98oGAYt_bBHEwtiUQX2P4LmtjaKhVV0VlvJX5xvDjrKQheyp5_CmfCWRTh5ihMQ8C5w6_IO23bWvPQnwv2wAQDsieogtNlrt/s320/IMG_4853.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the foreground, check out BIG pile of sand. I, all by myself, shoveled it into the garden cart, moved it and dumped it into that pile. (Mental note--moving sand is a great workout!) The reason I had to move it was because the sand was right where my garden was going to be located. I ordered my seeds a couple weeks ago and I received them the other day. I'm getting excited about planting them, but it's probably still a little early for zone 4. Here's a couple of shots of the seeds I ordered from <a href="http://www.fedcoseeds.com/" target="_blank">Fedco Seeds</a> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.bountifulgardens.org/" target="_blank">Bountiful Gardens</a>. </span><br />
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The roof is done, complete, finished!! Isn't it Beautiful?!! So now we can finally say we have a roof over our heads, but it's still a bit breezy inside because we don't have all the windows in yet-- there's always something else to work on. Speaking of other work...here's what else we've been working on...<br />
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If you look close on the roof, you will see the start of the growth of a baby chimney. When full-grown, this will be the chimney for our kitchen stove.<br />
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A Jotul (pronounced Yo-tul) #404, cast-iron, wood burning kitchen stove made in Norway, with oven and range-top. This baby can cook a roast AND all the fixings. It was manufactured and imported around the 1980s and they are pretty hard to find on the used market, but we found one a while back in Michigan. We made a mad dash there in a weekend and brought her back to live in our new house. She's going to love it here! Can't wait to hook her up and try her out!!<br />
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As we go to "press" (my grandkids won't get the significance of that? Will we have presses in the future?? Or will we just post? I'll have to go back and watch the Jetson's again.) the second chimney is full grown. We now have a dual-exhaust house! We're working on the third one, which I'll post about next time. Until then...Happy Building!<br />
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We finally have half of the metal on our south roof. Sure looks nice!! My contractor and a friend got two panels (24' long) up on Saturday and they put another four up today. They are really moving right along. They told me they thought they would be expert metal roof installers when they get finished. Oh, that's good. Guess they were just learning on my roof?!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8236267086797996883.post-78001837183431458822011-11-25T21:52:00.000-07:002011-11-25T21:52:55.367-07:00Happy Thanksgiving!I know you're thinking that yesterday was Thanksgiving, and you're right, but we were busy working on our house all day yesterday, so we decided to celebrate today (Good choice since the wind decided to blow all day today). On Thursday we finished getting our south roof completely sheathed and tar papered. It really looks nice and now we are finally ready to install our metal roofing on the south side. Here's what it looks like now. See, completely closed all the way to the top.<br />
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You think that looks good, just wait until you see the next picture! To celebrate Thanksgiving I made a home-cooked feast that was absolutely the best Thanksgiving Dinner I have ever prepared . Since my tin oven is rather small, I opted for a whole chicken instead of a turkey. I found a small blue-speckled roasting pan that fit in my tin oven perfectly. I stuffed the bird with delicious stuffing and surrounded it with potatoes, carrots and onions. My tin oven gets placed on top of our wood burning stove and then the blue-speckled roasting pan is placed in the tin oven and four hours later-- wal-la -- the best Thanksgiving dinner ever!! (WARNING!! Only view image below on a full stomach or you'll get REALLY hungry. Our cabin smelled so wonderful, too! Maybe technology will be available someday to put scents with your pictures??!!)<br />
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Here we are after our feast breaking the wish bone. Guess what I wished for??<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">We haven't done any work on our house this week because my contractor caught the flu. So, today I got to do something I enjoy (besides working on the house)--make some apple butter. I have recently learned how to can and I really enjoy making delicious jams & jellies. So far I have made grape jam, chokecherry jelly, raspberry jam, and now apple butter. The really awesome thing about all my jams and jellies I have made is that the fruit has been grown by local gardeners and not purchased from a store.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Anyway, I thought today would be the perfect day to can because there was snow predicted and I figured I wouldn't overheat the cabin. Wrong! It never snowed and I had to open all the windows. My sick contractor kept complaining it was too hot!! I think it only got up to 80. :o)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
The recipe was very simple and easy to make. I found it at Heidi Swanson's blog called <a href="http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/000125.html">"101 Cookbooks".</a> The only things I did differently was I used some cloves that a friend from work grew, dried and gave to me (same friend who taught me how to can-- "Thanks friend!"), then I ground them myself--which was REALLY hard. Probably because I don't have a mortar & pestle. And I've seen "Julie & Julia" tons of times--Julia Childs cooking instructor at the Cordon Bleu says, "You must have a mortar & pestle!". I guess I just didn't listen!! Here's my pretend mortar, pestle, and ground cloves.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkyuRRfOnNVi1c_b8V3xdI9XMjceL-Gf5Bpd_JnfmSArmocdMLN5xLYTslgt3Qs5WESe6tf41r702lsASLvqUEg3Acerk2pf0Oz6bYW9_p678ANGcBnxa6P6iMp8Eo_jRWzxz9hvYK23N/s1600/11.06.11+043.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkyuRRfOnNVi1c_b8V3xdI9XMjceL-Gf5Bpd_JnfmSArmocdMLN5xLYTslgt3Qs5WESe6tf41r702lsASLvqUEg3Acerk2pf0Oz6bYW9_p678ANGcBnxa6P6iMp8Eo_jRWzxz9hvYK23N/s320/11.06.11+043.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(By the way, I had store bought ground cloves in my pantry, but wanted to use the home-grown cloves.) The other thing I did differently than the recipe is I didn't blend the apples. I just cooked them and smashed them a bit. I left some chunks--very yummy that way!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Since this is my blog, let me take just a minute to go off-subject. Has anyone besides me noticed how much food is coming from other countries? In purchasing apple juice for this recipe I had a hard time finding juice from the USA. I finally found Tree Top, which said it was 100% USA apples.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This stove was given to us by my Mom & Dad. It originally belonged to my Grandma & Grandpa. I bet they never thought their granddaughter would be canning apple butter with it in 2011, in a cabin!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8236267086797996883.post-8156218407678398922011-10-31T22:14:00.000-06:002011-10-31T22:14:42.205-06:00I Dare You To Walk The Ridge-Pole<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NCsp19U9R8nOmVQeh1DCOscjpUKN3EUX6_ihYgReKimn5fCCa2lITjeIiwTh0wZCajOCpDoNexyjg5yZsav4Cf69G31mF4xPwg3Kp6IlgXyC88-Bxa7LD_NmZnvu7uWv3wydpK_TCGCf/s1600/Anne-of-Green-Gables-anne-of-green-gables-599647_640_480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NCsp19U9R8nOmVQeh1DCOscjpUKN3EUX6_ihYgReKimn5fCCa2lITjeIiwTh0wZCajOCpDoNexyjg5yZsav4Cf69G31mF4xPwg3Kp6IlgXyC88-Bxa7LD_NmZnvu7uWv3wydpK_TCGCf/s1600/Anne-of-Green-Gables-anne-of-green-gables-599647_640_480.jpg" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NCsp19U9R8nOmVQeh1DCOscjpUKN3EUX6_ihYgReKimn5fCCa2lITjeIiwTh0wZCajOCpDoNexyjg5yZsav4Cf69G31mF4xPwg3Kp6IlgXyC88-Bxa7LD_NmZnvu7uWv3wydpK_TCGCf/s1600/Anne-of-Green-Gables-anne-of-green-gables-599647_640_480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></a><br />
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That's me above (you can see our house in the background--don't ask me where the tree came from) acting like my heroine, Nancy Drew I'm looking a pile, of what looks like turkey feathers on our property. <br />
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You might ask: Where did they come from? How did they get there?? Where's the turkey??? Why are you wearing high heels???? That's just the way my mind works-- I always revert back to my childhood days of reading Nancy Drew novels. You might also be wondering how I found them--with my magnifying glass, of course. Not really. Nancy would be a big nobody with out her sidekicks Bess and George. Well, my sidekick is our dog, Patsy. She has the best nose this side of the Mississippi and can smell out trouble anywhere.<br />
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As the mystery started...We were headed out for a walk on a cold, windy night. We usually let her run free on our property to burn of some of her over-abundant energy, so we can have an enjoyable "walk" instead of a "pull". Tonight she headed directly for this part of our property<br />
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at top speed-- like she knew it was there, like she saw it happen. Or maybe it was just that incredible nose of hers (most likely, but it's always fun to jump into "Nancy" mode). Anyway, Patsy enjoyed what she could nibble on, but the killer didn't leave much for her--just the feathers. We didn't find a weapon and no traces of footprints, but Patsy did find more feathers just on our neighbors side of the fence. We're both suspicious of the neighbor dogs. Maybe this mystery will never be solved.<br />
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I have on occasion, seen wild turkeys around, but never near our house. The ones I have seen have been a really nice "platter-type" size. I don't even think the killer took the time to stuff it--stuffing is always good with turkey.<br />
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Oh, this blog is supposed to be about building our house. We had planned to work on the roof today, but our famous wind was blowing just a little too hard. Instead, my contractor did some much needed research on the next steps of our project and I did some sleuthing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8236267086797996883.post-26460842337961805342011-10-27T19:02:00.000-06:002011-10-27T19:02:50.099-06:00Roof-Roof (but our dog would say "howwwll")<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2oc6YwLvTmVmU8EbrPWNM8Dhzs1QE4CcKpaxXutZ38ddEh1avhRarFpbNP2eWmcapp3W4o1Ip4JXDlL9q84LAtJ9wneKxj33ok_v3gIUd0sy-fophY0KIUmkAXsLUpYR0LrxlZECUjrI/s1600/house+10.2011+002+fixed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2oc6YwLvTmVmU8EbrPWNM8Dhzs1QE4CcKpaxXutZ38ddEh1avhRarFpbNP2eWmcapp3W4o1Ip4JXDlL9q84LAtJ9wneKxj33ok_v3gIUd0sy-fophY0KIUmkAXsLUpYR0LrxlZECUjrI/s320/house+10.2011+002+fixed.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>We're getting ready to put the south metal roof on our house. As you can see, my contractor has the tar paper on most of the roof, but you're probably wondering why we have gone with the scandinavian look?? Those 2 x 4's are to hold the tar paper in place (we get a lot of wind around these parts), plus my contractor can use them to get around on the roof--he's not used to walking around on such a steep angle, up so high. The wood will come off as we put the metal on. We need to keep the neighbors wondering what we are doing, right?! You'll also notice my supervisor chair on the right--I need something comfortable so I can make sure my contractor does the job right?! Anyway, we're hoping to start getting the tar paper covered this weekend, as long as the weather cooperates--there was snow a few miles south of us, but we didn't get any. The weatherman says things should look pretty good through the beginning of next week. Yippee!<br />
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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!<br />
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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.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">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!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And one last picture... our new foxhound, Patsy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">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".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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