1st Week of May...

Well GREAT news...Levi Yoder, my Amish cabinet maker, came up and measured my kitchen and bathroom on Thursday for my cabinets. After measuring and sort of laying things out, I assure you that it's going to be one of the most beautiful kitchens you all will ever see. Yeah...I'm alittle bit biased but I want my kitchen to kind of be the highlight of the house. We got to talking about the schedule that Levi has planned for the building process and he told me that they would start building the middle of this week and that they would be installed during the 1st week of May. HOLY COW!!!! That's not this week BUT NEXT!!! How exciting!! So that's all that I'll be thinking about between now and when they are actually hanging on my walls!
Another awesome thing is that Bob, one of Travis's workers, got my railing done. It look FANTASTIC!! I absolutely adore people with these kinds of woodworking skills. It takes a crazy amount of talent and patience to do this! So enjoy the pictures and it won't stay this color, I'm going to stain it to match the other woodwork in the house.

And until next time, I'll be painting, scrubbing and cleaning like a mad woman!!

Going way back....

I got a couple pretty cool pictures handed to me this morning. My Great Aunt is here visiting from California and she gave me a couple pictures she had of my house. They were taken in 1942 or 1943. These are probably the coolest pictures I've ever seen of my old house!

My Great Aunt Patty is the little girl in this picture. She was 9 or 10 when this was taken. The man in the hat in the right side of the photo is my Great Great Grandpa Brown. Burt was his name. The man standing back by the water pump was my Great Great Uncle Lafayette. As you can see, the house hasn't changed much.

Pictured here are Maud Brown, my Great Great Grandma. We aren't sure who the lady in the middle is and the girl on the right is my Great Great Aunt Mae. Aunt Mae owned the farm before Craig and Shirley. But I just HAD to share these. I think old pictures like this are so awesome!
A couple other things that went on at the house this week was that my ceiling fans and light fixtures were installed. They aren't anything fancy but they go great with my dark wood work.

The other thing that has been going on is the installation of my new railing downstairs. Bob, who works for Travis, is building it from scratch. So far I'm very impressed with his work.

Plans this week...hopefully, hopefully, HOPEFULLY finishing up electrical work and getting started on cleaning woodwork. I just haven't got my accomplished since the weather has been nice. We have been getting things ready to go to the field and the cows are still calving. Those 2 things have taken up alot of my time. I hope everybody enjoyed the nice weekend weather and have a super week!!

Movin' Along...

Not alot went on this week with the house. Travis and his guys came back and got my doors installed. They also got barn boards put on the header between my living room and dining room. Also, another cool thing they did was trim the top of the kitchen with pieces of barn board left over. I'll post a picture. It looks pretty cool. I'm short about 10 feet so I'm on the lookout for more barn board.
Jon is finishing up my electrical work. He's been getting all the switches and receptacles installed. I also went ceiling fan/light fixture shopping with a couple of good friends this week and we got alot accomplished. I ended up getting 6 ceiling fans and a chandelier for my dining room. Since I'm not going to have central air, I need all the help with moving air as I can. I look at it this way...if the house has gone without air for the past 100 years, why wouldn't it be fine without it for the next 100??
I still haven't started on my woodwork. The weather has been too nice and we need to be getting stuff done outside. Maybe during a rainy day this week I can get started on it.
Thanks so much for reading and everybody have a fantastic week!