I think I am wearing out. It seems that every great project, just creates huge messes that someone has to clean up! (scrunching eyes, crossing fingers and toes, hoping, wishing, for a magic wand or a good fairy who loves to clean!) I know, anything worth having is worth working for, but I am tired of messes. And projects. Yet, I want the house finished, so I guess it's time to rest up and then buck up and get busy.
Lately, I have had the urge to re-arrange. Organize. Get rid of junk. However, my creative juices seem to have gone into hibernation. I need someone to give me some ideas, heck, I just need a friend! I would love to change the computer/ desk area in the living room, but the ideas just aren't there. I want it to be uncluttered, and cute, but I have a tendency to pile things. A tendency to just set it here for now, and when I come back the pile has doubled. I also have a tendency to think I need to save everything. I KNOW I don't need that bill stub, that flyer, and I will forget to use those coupons, but I save them anyway. I do the same thing with craft items, fabric. beads. scrapbook paper. stamps. And let's don't even get started on books!
I was cleaning the basement tonight, and it made me feel sorry for chimney sweeps! When farmboy was doing the roof, and took out the crumbling chimney that had the furnace stack running up it, he didn't realize that taking apart the top part, was causing soot to fill the basement. There was a layer of black soot on everything down there. I looked like a street urcin by the time I was through, and it doesn't wash off easily, my skin is scrubbed raw! I want to get to the point that anything stored down there in the dungeon, is in a cupboard or a drawer, or an airtight container. (of course getting anything down the stairs is a risk to life and limb, so honestly, I would prefer to have nothing stored down there!)
Sorry about the gripe session, but I feel like I'm talking to someone who can relate, even if they don't answer back. Best wishes to you and your projects! (come on creativity, I know you're there!!!)

Garden Bounty

Wow, the garden is popping up all over! All that rain in May and June made things grow like gangbusters! Here is a picture of the garden with the boxes and the trellis. Look how tall the corn is already! and get a load of the squash plant! (if you find spaghetti squash on your doorstep- it wasn't from me!)

Farm boy has completed the porch and roof on the porch side of the house, He will finish the rest next spring (what a huge job.) I love the new porch. I think it makes the house look great, like it has always been there! I was amazed how people would stop to chat while we were in the construction stage- lots of great comments. Feel free to stop by and chat even if we're not out working. ( ;

I can't believe how tall the raspberries are this year! They are taller than me! (though that's not saying much) They are just beginning to ripen, and I can't wait to stuff my face! Raspberries on my cereal, on my ice cream, in cobbler, warm off the vine, any ol' way, just let me at 'em!! I just have to beat Farm boy to the patch...

Don't they just look so tasty? Farm boy started cleaning out the inside of the grainary, (mainly so he could store the shingles in it) so soon I will have a cute garden shed. The sunflowers and hollyhocks I planted are popping up well, too, I am excited to see them bloom.

Now, if there was just some grass, instead of weeds-soon! We have plans to rent a sod cutter and make a flower bed in front of the porch and on the south side of the yard, so the grass we remove will come over around the garden and shed. Good news for my poor bare feet! I am always pulling stickers out of them. A few last pictures of the house and my other flower bed! (oops the roof jacks are still up there!)

Extreme porch makover continues...

The roof is coming along,but the weather has not been very cooperative. Thanks for all your help Mother Nature! (not) These photos were taken June 27, As of today, there is only the section over the kitchen left to be shingled (at least for this year) I have not been very patient, I want to decorate the porch! It drives me crazy for it not to be finished, but Farmboy is slaving as quick as he can (go farmboy!)

I planted my baby buggy, and think it looks very cute this year! I am not sure how well it will do now that the porch gets even less sun, but we will see. I also found a fun metal art design to hang on the wall in the "sitting area". See, I can't wait!