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It’s a little messy in the kitchen. Steve-the-Builder is still using my garden window, and most of my counters, as his workspace.
The living room is a little messy, too.
This hall bathroom almost looks tidy. It could use some decor, don’t you think? And some running water…..
Between nailing on trim and hanging doors yesterday, Steve-the-Builder pumped our new well and got the water running clear in a few hours. He wants to pump it again this morning and then sometime today he’ll start running it into the house! It’ll be, like, a real house! Except for the messy part and all the construction finishing work. And the no furniture thing.
The flooring is completed on the main floor, but it hasn’t made it up the stairs to Princess’s Summer Pecan and Polished Maple bedroom.
My “pie porch” isn’t quite ready for pie yet, either. (I will be calling this the “pie porch” forever now, thank you! I love your comments, each and every one. You make my day, and you come up with the greatest ideas!)
Here’s what I was doing from morning to midnight yesterday.
I could hardly paint trim and get it dry fast enough before Steve-the-Builder was nailing it to the wall. The end is near and he has a fishing trip planned. Inspired by dreams of his rod and reel, he’s working nearly 24/7 to complete our house. The trim is nearly finished on the main floor. He’s got a few more doors to hang, and gutters and a few other small jobs. Then he’ll clean up and go fishing. And we’ll be able to bring furniture in.
For now, I decided last night to leave the children back at the old farm with my cousins. They’ll be more comfortable there, and I can work nonstop along with Steve-the-Builder painting trim, cleaning up the floors, and getting things organized. (I say that as if I work one teensy tiny bit as hard as he does.) So it was just me and my trusty puppy who spent the night last night, with some blankets and pillows on the floor. Bluebell was a little scared at first. She kept looking at me as if she wanted to know when we were going to go home.
But this is home. And I get to wake up here every day for the rest of my life. How lucky am I? I think I need to pinch myself because I must be dreaming! But it’s real. Steve-the-Builder finally left just after midnight, and when I was here, alone, in my so-close-to-finished house, just me and Bluebell? Total euphoria hit. I didn’t have to go home. I was home. Home on a farm.
I LIVE ON A FARM!!!!!! And if I couldn’t wait quite one more day for the water to be running in the house, can you blame me? I don’t like to complain about the old farmhouse. I love the old farmhouse. I think everyone should live in a 100-year-old farmhouse for two and a half years. It is a life experience beyond compare. But things don’t work there. (And water not working for one day here? Not even close to what all doesn’t work right there!)
And still, at the dawn of this new farmhouse’s life, I can only hope that someday it will be filled with the love and meaning and history of that old farmhouse. I believe….
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on March 12, 2008
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Congratulations on the house! It is beautiful. I look forward to hearing more about your life on your farm.
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I’m so happy for you, I really can’t express it. I wish you decades of Joy and love and laughter in your new home.
-Kim
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I think your Dusty the driller is MY dusty the driller. He’s phenomenal. Any pump/water issues, he’s your man.
I hope you’ll be at the WV Writers Conference in June. Maybe I’ll get to meet you there. In the meantime, I’m enjoying your blog. There are many things that parallel my experiences when I moved to WV over 30 years ago. I could write a book about the things I didn’t know and the entertainment I provided for my neighbors.
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Glad your house is almost finished very cool!
Its realy fun to read your commentary, growing up on a farm I never imagined someone enjoying things that I sort of took for granted as every day things.
Its fun to “see” things through your eyes in Roane Country.
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now…need some help moving the rest of the stuff? i got a 4wd and only am a few hours north of ya!
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congratulations!
tracey
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Love the pie porch. Hope the weather turns into porch sitting weather just real soon now.
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grace and peace,
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Back to the YeeHaa’s and all…You’ve done such a beautiful job! And I hope that Steve the Builder has a wonderful fishing trip cause he did a fantastic job on your house.
When’s the house warming? I’ll be there, with pie to warm up the pie porch!
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Allowing us to watch you do all this with grace and laughter is an encouragement to all of us women who face life’s adversities alone.
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Be blessed,
Lea of Farmhouse Blessings
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congratulations on your first night of “being home”
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Even without the furniture: it’s beautiful and wonderful and it’s yours. You and the kids will put your mark on that house and give it its first pieces of history. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being “home.”
LOL on the fishing trip prompting Steve-the-Builder to work round the clcok. That trip wasn’t your idea, was it?
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I have in Montana since ’94 and realized my “rural” dream in ’02 – and especially my latest home – a 1 bedroom, 1 bath ranch on a bit over 8 acres with woods and mountains to look at and walk through.
AND, the all important front porch (my blog is titled “From the front porch”). I’m not a writer by profession, but I have discovered a passion for the daily log/essay. My front porch is my place of inspiration, morning coffee, evening wine, late night cocoa, general peace, serenity and enjoyment of life’s simple and beautiful moments.
I would wish for you and your “pie porch” all of those things, whatever else you hope it will be and good pie to boot!
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Hugs, Laura
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BOO-YAH!
WOO HOO!
Amen.
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Blessings from Ohio…
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I think Steve-the-Builder should make a sign that says “Home Of The Most Famous Romance Writer In WV” to put up at the beginning of your road!
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Love all the pictures :purr:
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I made your Grandmother Bread a couple of days ago and it’s WONDERFUL!!!
Read 2/3 of a Hero’s Redemption today & you’ve got a new fan! Keep ‘em comin’
KP
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I’ve been sending links to my daughter as I came across something I know would interest her, and I’ll bet she’ll soon be hooked, too. She and her boyfriend plan to move to Nebraska in order to get away from Atlanta, looking for that quiet small town atmosphere.
I’ll be heading to WV in Aug for the late-life wedding of a friend I’ve been close to for 57 years. She lives on one of those family farms! Can’t wait to see it.
I’ll be reading you from now on. Fabulous website! Thanks for sharing.