Allison's Acres

Wow!! I didn't realize how long it has been since I last posted! A LOT has happened since my last post from last year! We were lucky and had a very mild winter. Although, I did happen to learned that heating my old house isn't very good on my checkbook. I knew it wouldn't be the best but I also didn't think it would be that bad. I have alot of things to do before next winter. I am just thankful that the winter was pretty good to us. I am looking into adding an outdoor woodstove in the future. I've talked to a couple of people that do have them and they say nothing but good things about them. So I might have to seriously consider that in the near future. We also got the crop planted in a very timely matter. For the most part everything looks great, but we are in need of some rain pretty badly.
The house was also featured in the Corydon Times Republican's Spring Home edition of their paper. Shelda Lundsford came out and toured the house and interviewed me and wrote a very impressive piece about the transformation and the history. She also mentioned of doing some more stories of the history of the house and the farm, which I think would be very neat and I'm sure I would learn even more things about my ancestors.
I also just purchased something else that goes quite nicely with my house. I managed to buy 80 acres of ground right across the road from the house.

This is in CRP until 2017 so I can't really do anything with it until my CRP contract is up. After the contract expires, I plan on turing it to pasture. Every time that I look at it, I imagine seeing cattle grazing the hills. This is something that I am very excited about and I'm glad I was able to proceed with it and get it done.
As for the house. Page and I...well mainly just Page, has been working on getting the rest of the paint stripped off the floor upstairs so we can go ahead and get that sanded and finished. It's slow going but it is coming along. I also have plans on getting Levi Yoder back and building cabinets for my office that will be in my loft. Hopefully we can get together next week and he can get it measured and get plans rolling. I am very excited about getting this done!
Thanks again for sticking with me and staying interested in this life long project. Until next time...