The Bell
The bell has come home, and it has an interesting story to tell. It starts this way, detail provided by Edward Moersfelder: The 22 inch cast school bell originally hung …
Windows, Wall, and Wandering Fireplaces
The last month of holiday had us starting one project, stopping for celebrations, eating, napping, starting again with a different project for awhile, remembering what we didn’t have for that …
A Room With a 100 Year View
Some of you may remember a post many moons back about the west windows of the school. I believe I called it “Why Are the Windows to the West Bricked …
Merry Christmas, and let the BELL ring!
Christmas morning dawned clear and COLD!! -10 is enough to make you want to crawl back under the covers and hibernate until spring. But thank goodness we didn’t. Biggest news …
Happy Holidays
Ah, the smell of roasting turkey and stuffing, pumpkin pies and all the goodies of the season. Fortunately for us, mom and dad put on a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner, as …
It’s a Good Year, if it Snows by November
…especially if it happens before my birthday; that’s what I’ve always said. So along those lines, it was a good year. A year of firsts, for sure, including being able …
Fall Sweep
As much as I really don’t want it to, the time to do some final prep for fall has inevitably come. But if it must, today was as good of …
Move-In Day
In the past, this time of year brought in inevitable post about closing up the schoolhouse for the winter. Boy is this year different! This year, October brings move IN …
Ramble Away
Last weekend was a busy one. The River Road Ramble open schoolhouse and yard sale was a huge success. We were so excited to see all of you out here. …
ROOF!
A picture speaks a thousand words, so here we go! A beautiful morning and a beautiful new red roof! Words don’t begin to describe how good it feels to get …
The Little Stuff
We’ve been so fortunate to show some great progress in the last couple posts, but I wanted to take a step back and show some of the little things that …
Let’s get one thing straight
As much as I thought getting the beams in was the pinnacle of accomplishment for the summer, we have literally topped it. Last weekend we tackled that leaning tower of …
The Beams are In!!
I wanted to name this post off something catchy like “Beam Me Up!” or “BRD – Beam Raising Day’, but I am just so excited about finally getting them up …
Moving on Up
As promised – a fireworks picture (thanks Grace!) As for work in the school, we have officially moved to the next level – literally. Although we are far from done …
A New Vocabulary List
As the summer progresses, so does our schoolwork (although I’ve been a bit lax in turning in my homework assignents here – I promise to do better!) The whole month …
A Monumental Day
Despite it being a rainy week and a complete rain out last Saturday and Sunday, and spotty showers this weekend, there was progress made. And oh, what progress! Upstairs, we cleared …
A Concrete Example of a Good Weekend
OK, so maybe I think every weekend is a good weekend at the school, but this time, I have concrete proof of it. The idea is firmly cemented in my …
School. A good foundation.
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 on – my apologies! Between feeling under the …
Buried Treasure – at last!
As you know, all along I’ve been hoping for some buried treasure. A long hidden retirement stash, maybe stock papers for a multi-million dollar operation, something like that. I’d even …
A good foundation
Work continued this weekend in the basement. The hundred year old support beams were sagging mightily. After a lot of prepping, sore muscles and dust, 1/2 of the beams are …