Author Archives: Carrie

Originally posted on 2019-01-11 during the “off season” of this tourist town. 7) Our View Might Be Even Better Winter up here is very pretty and seeing winter over a lake every day is fantastic. The water has just started to freeze over, and this has allowed us to watch the waves move the thinContinue reading “7 Things I Love About Living Here”

Originally posted on 2019-01-04 The building of a hall closet. In the last blog post, I mentioned that the little one and her dad made some Christmas presents in the shop but couldn’t go into detail as that was before Christmas. The birdhouse in the picture was made for Grandma & Grandpa, with the littleContinue reading “A Place for My Stuff”

Originally posted on 2018-12-21 My cleverness is lacking a little this week… This week saw the purchase and set up of some of the equipment going into our shop along with our daughter making Christmas gifts with her dad. Unfortunately, further information regarding that will have to wait until next week, as some of theContinue reading “Mudding & Painting the Bathroom”

Originally posted on 2018-12-14 Converting the western garage into a proper wood shop. Over the last two weeks, we have been mainly focused on the shop, trying to get it completed so we can use it to build things for inside the house. Coming soon, some of the things we build here will be availableContinue reading “Creating a Space to Create”

Originally posted on 2018-12-07 Not that I am ever moving back. 10) Public Transit There is no option to travel around our house other than a car we own. Since we are resisting as long as possible the expense of a second car (we will give in eventually) there have been moments where I haveContinue reading “10 Things I Miss About The City”

Originally posted on 2018-11-30 Among other things done this week. This is not a recommendation nor a guide to make removing vermiculite a DIY project. Hiring professionals to do this can be costly, but not nearly as costly as it can be to your health if not done properly. Before deciding we were going toContinue reading “Vanquishing Villainous Vermiculite”

Originally posted on 2018-11-23 Or at least not freezing cold. As I mentioned in the last blog post, we have been finding many areas where our house allows cold air to be blown in and warm air to escape. Specifically we mentioned the access to the crawlspace for our daughter’s room. We have now coveredContinue reading “Some Like It Hot”

Originally posted on 2018-11-16 And is it ever pretty! This past week we have experienced the first snowfall that has left some snow on the ground. We will be expecting a lot more in the months to come, but winter has arrived. Most of this week has been at about freezing with the wind chillContinue reading “Winter Is Here”

Originally posted on 2018-11-09 Is basically all we did this week. By that I mean we dug. We dug a lot. Last week I mentioned that we started digging for the water line. This week we continued that digging, and almost completed it. We got the new water line in under the foundation and pulledContinue reading “Live Action MineCraft”

Originally posted on 2018-11-03 We hit a few small, but very important milestones this week. 1) We now have drinkable water! Yes, we can now use & drink the water coming out of our taps. The filtration system was installed into our plumbing closet on Monday of this week after we got the tile installed.Continue reading “Little Things Mean A Lot”