Year: 2017

Christmas morning dawned clear and COLD!! -10 is enough  to make you want to crawl back under the covers and hibernate until…

Ah, the smell of roasting turkey and stuffing, pumpkin pies and all the goodies of the season. Fortunately for us, mom and…

…especially if it happens before my birthday; that’s what I’ve always said. So along those lines, it was a good year.  A…

As much as I really don’t want it to, the time to do some final prep for fall has inevitably come.  But…

In the past, this time of year brought in inevitable post about closing up the schoolhouse for the winter.  Boy is this…

Last weekend was a busy one. The River Road Ramble open schoolhouse and yard sale was a huge success.  We were so…

A picture speaks a thousand words, so here we go! A beautiful morning and a beautiful new red roof!  Words don’t begin…

We’ve been so fortunate to show some great progress in the last couple posts, but I wanted to take a step back…

As much as I thought getting the beams in was the pinnacle of accomplishment for the summer, we have literally topped it….

I wanted to name this post off something catchy like “Beam Me Up!” or “BRD – Beam Raising Day’, but I am…

As promised – a fireworks picture (thanks Grace!) As for work in the school, we have officially moved to the next level…

As the summer progresses, so does our schoolwork (although I’ve been a bit lax in turning in my homework assignents here –…

Despite it being a rainy week and a complete rain out last Saturday and Sunday, and spotty showers this weekend, there was progress…

OK, so maybe I think every weekend is a good weekend at the school, but this time, I have concrete proof of…

We’ve been so busy the last few weeks I didn’t take time to update you on all the work that has been going…

As you know, all along I’ve been hoping for some buried treasure.  A long hidden retirement stash, maybe stock papers for a…

Work continued this weekend in the basement.  The hundred year old support beams were sagging mightily.  After a lot of prepping, sore…

Hard to believe, but it was 3 years ago today that we first laid eyes on our little schoolhouse.  Love at first…

It FEELS like spring out there, with weather in the 50’s and better all week.  By the fisherman’s standards though we are…

  Taking a page from one of my childhood books by Remy Charlip (pun intended), our discoveries last week with the structural…