The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

Our house was about as pathetic as a house can get when we bought it. One of the things we loved about it was it had an attached shop. The real estate agent said it was a 'shouse' a house and shop combined. The Amish builder was also a cabinet maker and all the cabinets in the house are either hickory or white oak and beautifully made. I amazes me how a man who could make such fantastically beautiful cabinets can really build such crappy houses.. We spent years leveling the floors and are still working on that project. The exterior walls had minimal insulation. None of the walls inside were done. Some didn't even have dry wall on them, just foam insulation. To say our efforts on this house have been a gift of love is an understatement. We bought it in 09 and in 12 installed electricity. In 14 we installed over 120 sheets of drywall on the main floor of the house and the shop. I'm still working on mopboards (no mopboards, no window finishings at all).

We have built 4 rooms taking space from the shop but considering the building is 88X40 we weren't robbing ourselves of shop space. We were wanting property with ridges and timber and we got that. About 20 acres worth. Would we like more? Yeah, but we are in our mid 60s and 28 acres is about as much as we can handle.

BF worked 35 years for Simpson Timber because of that we have this our
3/4 of an acre but 2178 square foot of house and dam near as big of garages 3 and the shop for his woodwork

 

[bruceha2000]

Start hollowing one out @CntryBoy777

Or i would not have bought a place with no bathtub or dishwasher.

Those 2 things are relatively easy to rectify.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Start hollowing one out @CntryBoy777


Those 2 things are relatively easy to rectify.

We have a portable dishwasher. I may ask for a bathtub for my birthday.

 

[pennyJo1960]

not hard to put in either cap

 

[CapricornFarm]

not hard to put in either cap

We need a stronger pump, it would take forever to fill with the pressure we have.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We need a stronger pump, it would take forever to fill with the pressure we have.

hell I would haul the water from the well to have soak

 

[microchick]

Howdy @CntryBoy777! Welcome to the Old Folks thread. We all might be a bit long in the tooth but we are young at heart!

 

[CapricornFarm]

hell I would haul the water from the well to have soak

It is not accessible from the yard, but yeah i would haul water too. It is down to 40 out there. The water from the tap is very cold, except if the hot is on.

 

[bruceha2000]

Don't you have a pressure tank @CapricornFarm?

You could haul water from the creek (or is it a crick in VA?)

 

[pennyJo1960]

Howdy @CntryBoy777! Welcome to the Old Folks thread. We all might be a bit long in the tooth but we are young at heart!

we sure still try to be young but sometimes it jumps us and bites us in a
but will welcome you to the old fogies group ggmmm thread