You know you live in the country when ...

You know you live in the country when ... 
the used farm equipment store lets you borrow a tractor and then delivers it - without even checking if they have the right house or asking anyone to sign for it's delivery.

Beautiful Sunrise

This morning started off with a beautiful sunrise!

What a great start to the day!

 

 

Today, Dad M. started work on the tack room in the horse barn. After clearing out all the misc things, and a trip to the lumber yard, he leveled out the floor and started laying barn board down. It was a lot of work to get the base in order!

Mom M. also came out in the afternoon and watched the boys while I took advantage of the sunshine and cleaned up the garden. The previous owners left us all their tomato and pepper plants. A big container of chestnuts was gathered from under the old chestnut tree too.

After Caleb's rest time, I took him out to see what Grandpa was up to. The boy was interested in how the saw worked and even helped Grandpa measure and lay down a couple of boards! And of course, he needed to feed the cats.

You know you live in the country when ...

You know you live in the country ....
When a guy comes to the door and says he's looking for a place to deer hunt and asks if our property extends into the bush.

You know you live in the country when ...

You know you live in the country when ...
you call to order a part for a furnace repair and they offer to drop it off and bill you later.

You know you live in the country when ...

You know you live in the country when ...
when over half of the traffic by your house are tractors.

Work Day

We have such wonderful friends and family!

Today's work included installing a railing on the stairs to the hay loft in the barn as well as the loft walkway.  There was lots of cleaning up to do to make things a little more safe for workers in the barn and for people that may be visiting our future horse boarding clients.

Thanks to Liz, Anna and Earl for their help!

Mark also came and cut our lawn.  It was too long and we don't have a lawn tractor yet.  Mark packed up all his equipment and drove it all the way from his place to ours then spent the day cutting the lawn and trimming and composting the clippings.  That should keep things cleaned up until the spring

Thanks Mark!  It looks great!

Our first guests

Mom and Dad W. not only wanted to see our new place, but wanted to help us get settled.  They were intending on coming for Thanksgiving weekend.  After hearing the long list of things that needed to be done asap, they came a few days early.

Mom W. helped me clean the kitchen, unpack all the kitchen boxes and get things organized and put away.  It took us 3 days.

Dad W. tackled the one room that we needed to redo right away: Nathan's room.

We thought it would be a quick update and get we'd move him straight into his new room on moving day.  But, striping the yellow pansy wallpaper was a nightmare.  And there just wasn't enough time for us to get it ready.

Dad spent the week repairing the walls adding coat after coat of drywall filler and then beautiful coats of blue paint that reminded me of the ocean.

Before:

After:

Many thanks to my wonderful parents for all the hard work and support!

Moving Day

It's moving day!

The day started off like this:

 

And ended like this:

We have a wonderful group of family and friends!

Thanks Shari, David, Steve, Leeling, Betty, Madeline, Mark, Earl, Liz, MaryAnne, Andrew, Ruth, Paul, Kari, Kylen and Loralee who shared their muscle all day!

Special thanks to Mom M., Justin, Jeanette, Ben & Noah for taking care of my precious boys.  And to Shari who made sure they had a place to sleep tonight.

We love you all!

Windows

Opening up all the windows to let some from fresh air in means a bigger job when there are 33 windows to open!

Happy Key Day!

Today is the day!!!

For weeks, we've been counting down with Caleb to what became known as "Key Day".

We waited (not so patiently) for that big phone call from the lawyer saying that the purchase was completed.  It finally came!!!

I was very excited!

 

Our first dinner in our new house!

 



 

The first sunset (of many more to come)!