1. My MIL gave me two hummingbird feeders as soon as I mentioned I’d love to get some to hang around our house. This one hangs on a tree in the backyard on a hook we found grown into the tree!
2. The two of us before we headed out to ultimate frisbee.
3. I tried a new manicure. I love it!

My week so far has been pretty good! Although, Monday morning was kinda crazy. OK, so here’s the story:

I live about an hour away from the school. Most of my drive is back roads and highways and most of these roads have no shoulder just potholes on the side of the road. An 18-wheeler was coming in the opposite lane so naturally I veered warily towards the “shoulder”. The potholes sucked me in and WHAMMO! Flat tire! I pulled over as soon as I realized it and had no service to call Jason. So I had to turn around and drive back towards home until I could call Jason. I made it to a gas station and he came and fixed the tire but because I drove on a flat our rim bent. Now we’re waiting for it to get fixed while I drive my behemoth, the Trooper.

Other than that it’s been a great week!

How’s your week going?

Since yesterday was my first day of school and I had to leave the house at 6:45- and didn’t go to bed until midnight- it’s pretty obvious that I slept super well last night. After I woke up I spent the day thinking about more things to update our home. The above picture is what I have planned to do to the biggest wall in our game room and paint the rest of the room navy.

I REALLY want to find a really cool antler piece to put above our couch or above our mantel. Finding the right one for the right price will be a challenge though!

How’s your Tuesday going?

Last night had to be one of the coolest nights ever. Since Jason’s the Tech Director and their looking for some new technology for the school, we decided to head down to Cushing with Rosemary, the librarian for Laneville, for the open house of Cushing’s new primary school. Afterwards she had invited us over for watermelon.

We drove the 10 short minutes to Cushing and fawned over their new school and their fancy technology. While they jib jabbed I took some pictures of the school. Particularly these two:

That’s a big dome in the middle of the school and a part of the floor. Neat, huh?

Later, we drove back to Rosemary’s gorgeous 100+ year old farm house right up the road from us. She took us all around her house and told us countless stories of her greats and great-greats, most of which lived right here in Laneville. Huge wooden chests and wardrobes and rocking chairs were said to be at least 100 years old.

Her (great?) grandmother’s dining set. Jason’s favorite pie safe and a solid wooden chopping block.

As we sat at her table eating watermelon and peach cobbler she read to us a beautiful obituary of a young girl out of an ancestory book her second cousin’s husband had written. Pages and pages of birth announcements and obituaries and marriages filled that book. I’d love to sit and read it cover to cover.

 

But my favorite part of the whole night was standing in her front hallway, or dog trot. I couldn’t stop staring at it and wanting to stand in the middle of it. This picture really doesn’t do it justice.

To the left are her great grandparents rocking chairs and up to the right is a 100 year old wardrobe from when her home was a teacher parsonage.

I was giddy the entire time. I couldn’t stop saying, “Wow. That’s amazing.” Because it truly was. I was speechless. She knew so much about her family and had so much physical proof testifying to her home’s age. Though it’s been remodeled a couple of times the bones are still there professing the beauty that is a simple farm house in our town of  Laneville. It brought reality to my eyes of our small town. Though I’ve only been here not even a year I have come to love this place. Yes, living far away from “civilization” is difficult at times, but it’s nights like these that make me never want to leave.

Hello, dear readers! Just a quick update for the day.

We arrived home safe late last Saturday from a GLORIOUS beach vacation! (More on that later!) Since we’ve been home Jason finally finished putting up all of the drywall in the living room! It looks so good! He’ll start on the mudding this afternoon and my music room will FINALLY be done by tonight. We’re trying to get everything finished in time for our big party debut next Saturday! We’re having friends over for a good time and to show off our home. I can’t wait! We’ve got lots to hang up, to paint, and to buy before next week. This will be the most I’ve done all summer, no doubt, but it will be totally worth it.

Trust me, there are loads of before and after posts coming your way soon!

-Mel

Hello, again! I promise you I haven’t abandoned my sweet blog, but I’ve been busy trying to get our house semi-finished for a party we’re planning on having out here in a few weeks! And with us going on vacation next week it’s been harder than we thought! There’s been a lot of painting and hanging things up going on but I promise I’ll show you pictures as soon as I have enough time to write a full post!

Have a good week!