farmhouse fireplace transformation

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So, this is reaching even farther back into our farm activities, but I did say that I have a lot of blog posts to catch up on…

About a month and a half ago (at least), Julie and Chris decided that it was time to modernize their red brick fireplace. They called on our trusted and talented interior design/ artist friends Cary and Tommi for some help and the plastering-painting project began…

Of course, like all communal activities on the farm, the fireplace project was much more than just that – it also involved brunch, coffee breaks, lunch and visits to the chicken coop…but in the end, the fireplace did get completed and it looks amazing!

Interior transformations on farms are, after all, just as important as exterior transformations :)

Before & after photos of the fireplace as well as the other activities of the day above.

PS – I completely forgot to mention the mantle! Chris built that gorgeous mantle out of the same wood he used for the flooring in the house. I’ll upload an even newer photo soon because the mantle was still in development here. It’s now smoothed out and polished up and is a seriously gorgeous feature in their home.

seed sorting party

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This blog post is a couple weeks late, but better late than never – especially since an upcoming blog post from a new contributor(!!!) will be a natural follow-up to this…

So, in partnership with our good friends Cary and Tommi, we ordered some seeds in January and spent a recent weekend sorting them. Since we ordered the seeds as a group, we needed to split them all down the middle so that Cary and Tommi could take their seeds home with them, so OF COURSE we used this as an excuse to have a seed sorting party, complete with coffee and snacks and lots of good conversation.

We sorted big seeds and tiny seeds, round seeds and flat seeds, day dreaming out loud about the abundance of fresh food we’ll be harvesting and eating in a few months time. In addition to herb and veggie seeds, we also ordered a lot of wildflower seeds – the kind that will help replenish our soil and attract a variety of butterflies and good bugs. FUN! It is going to be so awesome watching this piece of land come to life with blossoms and greenery and scents and bugs and birds… *happy sigh*

Seed sorting parties (or really, gardening parties of any variety) are a really good time. I recommend them.

unstuck (but not without leaving marks)

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In follow-up to this morning’s blog post…

When I got home from work, the cement truck was nowhere to be seen. He got out! He left behind really big tire marks in our field, but that’s okay – at least he was able to free his truck. And by the looks of things, they were able to pour the cement into the framed area for the pig pen platform too. As I walked towards it to check it out, my cat Lola came bounding across the field to say hi to me – right across the cement pad. Oops.

Those tire marks will get filled in and disappear. Lola’s paw prints, on the other hand, are here to stay. Personally I think it adds a major ‘cute’ factor to the still-uncompleted pig pen. Hopefully the rest of the farm family will feel the same way ;)