New House

Well we have finally bought and closed on a house. The process was long once we found the place, but finally it is ours to move into (well after all the work we need to do).

This is a shot of the back side. As you will notice by looking at all of these BEFORE photos the previous owners did not take too much care in how they occupied their lives. But overall the house has good bones and we can work with that.

The house was built in 1930 as a community building/church for the Colonists in the Butte area. So there is some neat historical significance to the house, and I hope we can keep some of that. So this is the West end of the house, which used to be the main entrance to the building, but not anymore.

This is the bathroom. It has a large walk in shower, with some very interesting "trinkets" around the archway.

And this goes to show how bad the people lived previously, but nothing compared to other parts of the house.

And these are some of the many "trinkets" that live in the bathroom. They will be coming down at some point in time, but until then maybe we will be able to identify all of them. (bird, seashell, bonnet, top of a red pepper, dragonfly, broken plates, pie, girl, orange, etc.)

This is a shot of the living room/dining room/kitchen. It is one big room, but we love the old hard wood floors. Can't see the kitchen too well, and I missed getting a good shot, but it is open and spacious. All the countertops even have butcher block on them. The first two doors lead to bedrooms. Then the bathroom and then the laundry room.

So that was the house tour. There was a lot of junk and trash everywhere, inside and out. And I am sure we will be spending all next year after the snow clears finding more trash and treasures.

So this last picture is of an old green house that is around back. But most recently it was used as a chicken house. So I guess stay tuned till later and see what we turn it into. It is also filled with lots of trash and treasures.

End of the Year at the Farm

So it was a long summer with all the rain we had, but it was a great summer. Harvest ended up good and so did everyone's moral, even though we had some slow days.

Below is a picture of the "Field Ornament" that I made. Some of the boys who were supposed to be moving pipe for me, so I could roto-till missed a piece.

And so this is what happens after a loud "BANG". It was left in the middle of a patch of Brocolli and hidden pretty good. Lucky no one was standing behind me because it shot out of the roto-tiller quicker than I could get the PTO shut off. We finally got carrots done also, seemed like a never ending job.

These are bins full of BAD carrots, crooked, broken or whatever may be wrong that we won't package them. There are going to be some happy horses somewhere though!

The carrots are GIANT carrots, as you can see. Most of them go to restaurants, not really sold in grocery stores. We bag/box them in 25# or 50# increments.

This is the antique carrot cleaner that we use. Go in dirty one end (right side of picture) and come out sparkly orange on the other end.

These are just a few that didn't get chosen. We saw some very strange looking ones. The one in the middle is almost white (albino carrot).

And the last day I was doing field work I had several visitors watching me and wondering where all the cabbage went that they were munching on.