BUSY AS BEES

SHELF AND QUILT IN GUEST ROOM

GUEST ROOM BED AND QUILT PICTURE
MAKING THE LAUNDRY AREA COZY
WALL OPPOSITE WOODEN IRONING BOARD
KITCHEN NEEDED SOME RED ACCENTS
KITCHEN COUNTER

DINING ROOM

GLENN HANGING CURTAINS

THE "PARLOR"

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I can't believe it's been a whole week since I last posted. Time flies whether we're having fun or not. Glenn and I have been working on the interior of the house but the cat area in the barn still needs to be arranged. That means I'm over here at our former home at least twice a day, caring for the cats and giving them attention, checking email, packing up the remnants we left here, and choosing songs for our contemporary chorus to sing each Sunday. Glenn often wonders what takes so long when I'm here, but he rarely comes with me to see for himself.

Last week we took down and cleaned the curtains in the parlor and washed those windows and put up a couple shelves. I also washed quilts and wallhangings. This week, Glenn worked on baseboard and trim for the rooms that had been left unfinished. Today he and I put up more shelves and I was finally able to hang some quilts. It's looking more like home all the time. We had taken all the shelves, quilts, pictures, and wallhangings off the walls in this (former) house and had to store them for over a year. We did that in preparation for a move that didn't take place because the seller backed out of the deal. I'm now realizing how much I missed having those things around me.

My sister was visiting the farm a couple weeks ago and said, "This house is more 'you' than the other house ever was", and she's right. I'm finding new places for things and new uses for my old "stuff". That's one thing I'm enjoying about living at the farm - making do with what I already have. I'm loving it more each day.