Animals

Now that we have a barn and acerage we decided to expand the chicken business.  Here we are picking up our chicks at the post office.  We ordered 150.

With 150 chicks some are bound to get sick.  We lost a few and for a while it seemed we had one or two with us during school recovering from some ailment or another.

Then we got the boys kittens.  While they are supposed to be barn cats they do find their way in on occasion.

Nathaniel and Cheetah/Charlie

Tim and Nora holding Softpaws and Cheetah/Charlie

The Dining Room

Before.

Before.

After.

After. 

Loving the colors!

The fireplace

Here is the fireplace when we moved in.  I pretty much ignored it not quite willing to admit what an eyesore it was.  

Before painting the brick I needed to change the brass on fireplace to black.  The brass was not going to complement the gray I was going to paint the bricks.  Using black spray paint in my living room was downright terrifying!  Granted, the carpet is old and will be replaced but I was just sure that something would happen and the spray paint would go everywhere.  I taped and papered off things to an excess just to play it safe.

Once the fireplace was all black I then had to tape it to keep if from getting the gray on it.

Here is it with not only the fireplace done but the walls painted as well.

Now I don't mind looking at it!

Painting the front of the house

We did it!  I can't believe we did it! 

Three weeks of hard work and many, many hours.

Before

After

Before

After

I love it!