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OK, so I’m a bit tardy on a new post – seeing that it was still snowing heavily on my last one….

Long ago, as we we’re in the process of dismantling the school several years past, we discovered, way back behind some of…

No nono, don’t get the wrong idea – this certainly isn’t the end! But we have had some pretty significant lasts the…

GIVEN that it is cold. and GIVEN that it is January in Wisconsin. and GIVEN I’ve become a bit delicate, this month…

Sometimes it seems all the posts are about work – but sometimes it’s important to stop and just take in the season,…

We’re Back!  After a pause to let our bank account catch up with our plans, we are back to making progress at…

Stop on by for a treat or warm yourself by the fire!  We’ve got the bell tower filled to the top!

Or, alternatively titled, “we got through all the things on the checklist that we hoped to do but didn’t think we would…

If you stopped by during the Ramble, you might have noticed a work in progress.  At that point, we were about half…

It was FANTASTIC to see so many of you last weekend at the River Road Ramble.  We had an incredible time talking…

Join us this Saturday for the 2018 River Road Ramble.  This historic, self-guided tour will let you explore the oldest road in…

The problem:  how to raise three 260 pound window sills 5 foot into the air in order to place them in their…

Have you been by lately? Have you seen the world’s most not-historic front door? Don’t worry – this is a case of…

Ta-da!  Jumping right to the end, the windows are in!!   We started with demo.  Looks pretty simple, yes?  Just remove the rubber roofing,…

All matching, all operating, all the time! Remember what these looked like when we first started?  Something like this, I believe…. We…

Like every good schoolhouse, we now have a chalkboard to keep track of our lessons.  Or in our case, our assignment list….

It was bound to happen, and one night it did, just like the song.  A bear has found his (her?) way to…

How does that phrase go?  Something about the best laid plans?  It seems our ideas about how much time we would have…

Following in the footsteps of the weather that raced from winter to full-on summer in about a week, ….we jumped from windows…

WINDOWS.  AGAIN. I feel like a theme is happening here, and it all has to do with windows, windows and more windows….