As everyone has obviously noted I haven't made a blog in quite some time now. Life has been extremely hectic the last couple of weeks. We have made some huge leaps in our life.
We bought a house! We didn't buy just any old house, we bought a nice log cabin nestled on 13 acres of land in Farmington. We are right on the edge of Wilson stream and it is almost all field around the amazing indoor riding arena and 9 stall horse barn.
We closed on the property on March 5th and that day I moved a few tractors and some shop stuff into the two car garage that has now become my shop.
The Garage is not insulated but to me anything with a roof is better than having to work out in the cold wearing a snowsuit and having to shovel around all of my projects. After moving a bunch of tractors and equipment in Monday Allyssia and I went up to the house and decided that before moving in we needed to refloor the kitchen, dining room, and the hallway to the front door.
The flooring was a vinyl roll down flooring that was cracked and faded and peeling up in spots so we opted to go with a PVC core click together flooring. It is completely waterproof and fairly well scratch resistant.
My father came over and helped me get started on the floor as he has done multiple click together floors at his house and at my sister's. When I first started there were a few times that I said "why did you start this" but once I got going it got easier and better. I still have to finish putting trim around the floor but the floor is down so that is what matters. Another improvement before moving in was a little bit of painting. Allyssia painted the kitchen a nice light blue to cover up the yellow that was there.
This is the first picture collage that I have used on the blog and I hope it shows the colors well enough to see the brightness change in the room. Finally Friday came along and we started packing the horse trailer with furniture and boxes that night and into Saturday morning. Saturday morning one of my co-workers came and helped me get the mattress and box spring as well as the couch onto the trailer. When we arrived in Farmington my other co-worker arrived and helped with the mattress and box spring but not the couch. We ended up getting rid of the old couch and went to Big Lots and instantly found the perfect couch for our living room.
It's a recliner couch and of course Cricket approves! Now even though we were mostly moved in Saturday we still had work to do Sunday moving the horses, hay, round pen panels, and other supplies up. We spent most of the morning and into the afternoon cleaning the stalls out setting up fences and just in general cleaning the barn that hasn't been used in years. Around two o clock Allyssia left to get the first two horses and by six thirty they were all in stalls and eating happily.
Now onto the house again! It is a beautiful two bedroom two bathroom log cabin with an unfinished basement and a loft.
The house is absolutely gorgeous placed in the middle of a nice flat lawn not to far from the barn or the road. There is no wood stove but there is oil heat and a pellet stove in the living room.
The previous owners also left us enough pellets to finish the winter out. If you notice in a lot of the pictures Cricket steals the show looking extremely cute and posing for the picture.
So it has been a big step for us but we made it and this big of a step means many more projects to come. I am going to do my best to document the before and after of all of these projects and most definitely post more often than this last spell that went by with nothing. As usual stay tuned as we will be making improvements and starting projects left and right here and would like to bring you along for the ride!
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