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Chick-Fil-A drive thru:

Ivey:  "Mom!  Don't forget my chicken nuggets!"
Olive:  "She knows what she's doing.  This isn't her first rodeo."

Mental Chiggers

Olive: "Don't mention chiggers!  Now I itch.  I have mental chiggers!"
Ivey: "Chiggers smell fear!  And I have the stink of BRAVERY!"

Measure, Cut, Fit, Nail, Repeat.

Long day...

The never-ending wood piles are getting to me.  It's like that huge plate of spaghetti that you've been eating and eating but it looks like you haven't touched it. 

 

Doors and Windows

Door progress - The glass is removed and Randy is sanding them down.  They'll be making a wood panel out of the heart pine frame these were in.  (Glass doors wouldn't work where we need these to go.)

Window prep for the porch.

Happy 9th Birthday, Miss Olive!

It took a full month after her actual birthday, but we finally had her "friend" party!  Ivey and I took Olive to see a movie and... SURPRISE!  It's your birthday party!

A few farm pics

Olive and the Ducks

Plugging away at it all...

Piecing together our hodge-podge of salvaged windows to make the sun porch.  Jeff has some of them on wood rails so they open.  (It took a little work laying out what sizes would work and how to arrange them, but we ended up paying only $80 for ALL these used windows!)

Asa has done a wonderful job helping Jeff trim the front porch.

Addison's as tired of putting up wall boards as I am of cutting them!

Framed in the deep kitchen window.

Upstairs linen closet is going to be adorable!  Every door in this house is either an old door or one that Jeff and Randy made from heart pine.

Odds and Ends... and SO many walls.

Heart pine bathroom vanity in progress!

Jeff's working on his favorite thing... stairs.

Making heart pine handrails.

This door fell from the sky... and it's perfect!

Siding!

We found a wonderful siding crew that put up our artisan series hearty plank for us.  They were top notch!  The braces that Jeff and Randy built and put in the barn back in 2013 are finally getting their time to shine. (And the best part?  We didn't do it ourselves, so it felt like lightening-fast progress with a big awe factor!)

Interior work

 We have been working on walls non-stop.  There are SO MANY BOARDS in this house... not a single piece of sheetrock whatsoever.  Asa works solo on attic work, Addison and Randy work on painstakingly putting up walls, and I haven't moved from the chop saw since the first floor board was cut.  

Asa, continuing to tackle the attic.

 Jeff's been working on getting the front door in and framed up.  Heart pine frame and rosettes that are getting a second chance at life.