theladysnarkydame (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
theladysnarkydame) wrote2020-04-23 02:14 pm
theladysnarkydame) wrote2020-04-23 02:14 pm
Entry tags:
The Lodge!
We've been doing some small jobs around the house, as I've mentioned - nothing too backbreaking, but we're trying to clean it up a bit, start showing it some love, that sort of thing. We just bought a ladder, so probably pretty soon (once it stops raining again) I'll be painting the trim - it's currently a pretty forgettable olive sort of color, but it will be a nice bright green before too long.
I really love the place - it's quirky, and creaky, as any American-built 50 year old house will be. But I think we'll be very happy here.
Some pictures! Finally.
This is the house! The front yard is the most "yard-like" area - the back is about an acre of blackberry thicket and small trees, which we haven't much gotten into yet. The side yard, far below the deck, is mostly cleared, but baby blackberries are coming back up, and it's mostly bare dirt otherwise. Eventually, I'll put in some raised beds and have a proper garden down there.
The side entrance leads up to my craft / storage room. The shed you can see in the back is barely usable (some seriously rotting walls and flooring) so until we get that torn down and replaced, there's a bunch of holiday decorations and seasonal stuff stored in my room too.
The kitchen is fairly small, and looks smaller right now, since it's a bit unorganized at the moment. But I like the way it's laid out, and I love watching the birds through the window (and Zoro loves sitting in the window box).
The back of the house: you can see that the roof on this side isn't in as good shape - in five years or so we'll likely replace the cedar shingles with a metal roof. You can also see what is essentially a fire pit - we burned a bunch of dead blackberry vines there recently. Eventually, we'll clean it up, put in some brick or cinderblock, and turn it into a proper, recreational fire pit to sit around and such, but for now it's a hole in the side of the hill.
And this is where we suspect the previous owners had goats! We're going to build a chicken coop in here, and a proper chicken run. Sometime this summer, anyway, to be ready for chickens by fall. So far we've just raked out the old leaves and pulled out some leftover fencing and such.
I'll try to post periodic progress pics as we get stuff fixed up. It's very exciting right now, as the weather warms up - SO MUCH green and growing going on.
I really love the place - it's quirky, and creaky, as any American-built 50 year old house will be. But I think we'll be very happy here.
Some pictures! Finally.
This is the house! The front yard is the most "yard-like" area - the back is about an acre of blackberry thicket and small trees, which we haven't much gotten into yet. The side yard, far below the deck, is mostly cleared, but baby blackberries are coming back up, and it's mostly bare dirt otherwise. Eventually, I'll put in some raised beds and have a proper garden down there.
The side entrance leads up to my craft / storage room. The shed you can see in the back is barely usable (some seriously rotting walls and flooring) so until we get that torn down and replaced, there's a bunch of holiday decorations and seasonal stuff stored in my room too.
The kitchen is fairly small, and looks smaller right now, since it's a bit unorganized at the moment. But I like the way it's laid out, and I love watching the birds through the window (and Zoro loves sitting in the window box).
The back of the house: you can see that the roof on this side isn't in as good shape - in five years or so we'll likely replace the cedar shingles with a metal roof. You can also see what is essentially a fire pit - we burned a bunch of dead blackberry vines there recently. Eventually, we'll clean it up, put in some brick or cinderblock, and turn it into a proper, recreational fire pit to sit around and such, but for now it's a hole in the side of the hill.
And this is where we suspect the previous owners had goats! We're going to build a chicken coop in here, and a proper chicken run. Sometime this summer, anyway, to be ready for chickens by fall. So far we've just raked out the old leaves and pulled out some leftover fencing and such.
I'll try to post periodic progress pics as we get stuff fixed up. It's very exciting right now, as the weather warms up - SO MUCH green and growing going on.