What Have You Gotten Yourself Into? Files

One of our earliest pictures of the farm house at the Genuine Faux Farm

It has been said that home ownership is a surefire way to get rid of any extra money or time you might have.  It has also been said that you can do the same if you farm.  As a good friend has reminded me (more than once) - I told me so.

Tammy and I have gone through the home ownership process more than once and, each time, the house was 'older' and needed some attention.  When we moved to the current farmstead in 2004, we were aware that there were going to be some things that would need attention and we thought we knew what those things would be.  Of course, we were wrong.  But, that's a story for yet another day.

Over the last couple of years, things have really come to a head with respect to home repair.  If you have read the blog, you know about the kitchen project because it shows up here and there.  That project is well on its way to being done.  Except that... it's not done.  We still have one more cabinet to put up, a floor to put down, some lights to put in and some finish work to do.  But, it functions better than it has for years... and we aren't afraid we'll step through the floor and visit the basement.

It's all good.

The current focus is on the siding.  You see, there is this shingle-like siding on the house that was put over standard cedar, lap siding.  The siding was actually one of the things we identified when we first moved here as needing attention at some point.  Well, it's 2019 going on 2020 and the siding is getting attention. We'll put some new pictures up in the next week or so.  It is already much different than it was!