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Thanks all for the compliments.
Omeletta - all I can say is that I am working from morning till night outside trying to take care of things. The home has not been lived in or the grounds cared for in 10 years. The pictures make it all look good but there is much more work than I can do. Many nights I'm too tired to cry myself to sleep. I pick a project each day and that' what I do. For example, hedge trimming - that takes many days and I still haven't gotten to all the hedges that line the brick walkways that all need to be pressure washed because they are black with mold - haven't finished all those either.
The parterres (formal French gardens) in front of house all need to be replanted with roses but need to be dug out first.
The house itself has a whole side that is rotted and needs to be replaced. We had the local lumber yard make a special tool to cut and shape cypress panels to match the ones on the house. Obviously I won't be doing that job myself.
I hired someone to cut the patures and open areas but I had mow with push mower a lot of the little yards, in between walkways and picket fences. I have some maids that come once a week and just dust mop and mop floors that get so dirty from all the cats and dogs and me going in and out while I work in the barn and coop. It takes three or four women three hours just to do that.
So I work outside all day and then inside all night. Cleaning windows, stripping floors, refinishing cabinets, pulling sheetrock off old beaded board walls to restore them.
The list is endless and I'm making myself tired just thinking about it. The plan is that once we sell some of our other properties we will have the funds to pay off this place and to pay someone to do all the major restorations that need to be made. At least, God willing, that's the plan. But for right now, it's just me. Hubby stays inside and keeps an eye on our on-line internet-based business which frees me to do all the hard physical work - Hmmmmm - maybe I should be the one to sit inside in a/c all day cause "Someone has to check e-mail" but he really could not care less if most of the things I find important are ever done or not - especially if it means him doing it - just ain't gonna happen. At our house in Covington which had 8 acres to be cut he used to say "Put a machette and map on the mail box for all I care."
This is my dream home too and I've learned to be careful what you dream for and wish for because you just might get it. Big houses and farm and property come with big demands.
Omeletta - all I can say is that I am working from morning till night outside trying to take care of things. The home has not been lived in or the grounds cared for in 10 years. The pictures make it all look good but there is much more work than I can do. Many nights I'm too tired to cry myself to sleep. I pick a project each day and that' what I do. For example, hedge trimming - that takes many days and I still haven't gotten to all the hedges that line the brick walkways that all need to be pressure washed because they are black with mold - haven't finished all those either.
The parterres (formal French gardens) in front of house all need to be replanted with roses but need to be dug out first.
The house itself has a whole side that is rotted and needs to be replaced. We had the local lumber yard make a special tool to cut and shape cypress panels to match the ones on the house. Obviously I won't be doing that job myself.
I hired someone to cut the patures and open areas but I had mow with push mower a lot of the little yards, in between walkways and picket fences. I have some maids that come once a week and just dust mop and mop floors that get so dirty from all the cats and dogs and me going in and out while I work in the barn and coop. It takes three or four women three hours just to do that.
So I work outside all day and then inside all night. Cleaning windows, stripping floors, refinishing cabinets, pulling sheetrock off old beaded board walls to restore them.
The list is endless and I'm making myself tired just thinking about it. The plan is that once we sell some of our other properties we will have the funds to pay off this place and to pay someone to do all the major restorations that need to be made. At least, God willing, that's the plan. But for right now, it's just me. Hubby stays inside and keeps an eye on our on-line internet-based business which frees me to do all the hard physical work - Hmmmmm - maybe I should be the one to sit inside in a/c all day cause "Someone has to check e-mail" but he really could not care less if most of the things I find important are ever done or not - especially if it means him doing it - just ain't gonna happen. At our house in Covington which had 8 acres to be cut he used to say "Put a machette and map on the mail box for all I care."
This is my dream home too and I've learned to be careful what you dream for and wish for because you just might get it. Big houses and farm and property come with big demands.
