Josephina, an American Girl

Rylee decided that for Haloween she wanted to dress up as Josephina from the American Girl doll/book series.

I think we did pretty good.

Rylee's Chickens

I look at our chickens and know that they have grown but it is kind of hard to tell when you see them every day so I decided to compare a photo from the day we got them....

To a photo from a couple of weeks ago....
Tony planted wheat seed as nurse crop for grass. The chickens were very appreciative.

This guy looks like the rooster on the wallpaper border in the rental house kitchen. I think he is a very fine specimen.

Day One Hundred Forty Seven - Sheet rock, etc

A lot has happened during the past 44 days since I last posted. The plumbing and electrical rough was completed and passed inspection. The dry wall has been hung and taped, mudded, sanded, etc.

Now I will take you on a tour of the house.

I'll start with what may be my favorite room in the house, my sewing/weaving studio. This was taken from the laundry room door. The outside door is to the left and the kitchen is to the right.

The great room taken from the dining area. There will be stained glass inserts in the two high fireplace wall windows. The door you see is the front door and faces east. Out of view on the right is the staircase and on the left is a set of doors to the porch on the north side of the house.

The dining area taken from in front of the fireplace. The kitchen is on the left on the other side of the half wall. There will be a built-in china cabinet on the dining room side of the half wall.

The loft/bedroom. The doorway on the upper left is the half bath. The French doors upstairs open onto a small balcony. The lower French doors and double windows are in the studio.

The house really does have a kitchen. In the above photo you are actually looking across the kitchen to the loft and studio.

I wanted to include one photo of the fall color. The foliage really looked much better than it does in this photo.