New Bathroom So Far

This is when the room was the ending of being our bedroom. Whoever put white carpet in a farmhouse bedroom was nuts. At this stage we knew the carpet was going to be removed so we didn't take huge steps to protect it & keep it pristine like we did for the first 4 years we lived here.

We removed the carpet and I painted the wall, not knowing quite where the shower would be 

When you don't know exactly how to do plumbing, it will take you a lot longer to do projects. It also takes longer when you get two different sets of parts.

Plumbing finished and it doesn't seem to leak. Drywall looks good. 

Jack and Jill door in the beginning

Door removed, plumbing partially finished

Drywall inside master bath

Drywall inside new bath

Its almost ready for me to paint the first coat. 

Today the fan hole was cut to fit the new fan, which will have a light, fan and heater. The light and heater will have one shared switch so they will come on at the same time. The heater will have its own switch. I'd prefer that the fan & heater be on timers.

The first time we were ever here the back pasture was all weeds and sticker bushes,

sections of it were 20 feet high.

We've worked hard to get them under control and keep grass growing and its coming along nicely.

 

Now that the new barn is going in its time to get the ground ready but the bulldozer is out of commission so the Kubota is doing the work.

This is where the stalls and runs will be, the lean-too on the left will become the aisle way and the stalls will be on this side of it, with runs in front of the camera extending out to about the tractor. Its slanted to create run off and about another foot of dirt has to be removed so we can bring in sand for the runs.

 

This is where the gate to the back pasture is, I could barely get through all the weeds

back in October 2015.

 

 

There isn't any scotch broom growing here, because the ground has enough nitrogen for

grass to grow instead of just weeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 I really like the view of the barn from this angle, from under the maple tree.

It's going to be nice to update this in the coming months.

 

 

Two more views I can't wait to update, from inside the arena.

 

The Back Pasture

 

This is the first time I had seen the back pasture, the black berries were 10 feet tall and had over taken the entire area. It was possible to walk to the back of the property (way back by the tall trees) but you would get poked numerous times.

 

November 22, 2014

 

Not long after we moved in Lan was able to spend a day out there on the tractor with the brush hog. He got this much mowed before dark.

January 2015

 

Over the next couple months he got a bit more done but he was spending most of his time over at the old house doing repairs and updates to sell it. This place was just waiting.

 

March 2015

 

Yesterday he got a lot more finished with the bull dozer. There are a couple piles of old stumps he needs to move and burn, some of the trees still need to be pulled up and all the perimeter fences need to be repaired/replaced.

But we know that and will get around to it very soon.

 





Today, April 17, 2015

 

I'm so glad we found this place, its going to be absolutely gorgeous when next summer rolls around and its growing more grass than sticker bushes.