The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Did you two buy the same kit house from the Sears catalog?

No, the log home was here when we bought the property. There was a lot of work to be done, more than we realized when we bought it. But we are making it ours.
Here is the dog inside a live tree!

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[bruceha2000]

Beautiful dog. See that @CntryBoy777, you could be posting a similar picture a year from now.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Beautiful dog. See that @CntryBoy777, you could be posting a similar picture a year from now.

Thanks, our dog's sire took best of opposite sex to the female that took Best in Show at Westminster! Her mothers side are search and rescue dogs.

 

[microchick]

Only if the Amish are into buying them. Last time I heard buying from Sears was against the community's Ordnung.

Our house is Amish built. Solid oak and Osage Orange. Can't drive a nail into any board without predrilling.

Here is the view from the ravine to the east of our house.

Then here is the timber looking down into the ravine.

At the very bottom of the second ridge is a deep creek...close as we can get to a river, LOL.

 

[CapricornFarm]

We searched long and hard for a place with acreage on a river. I was getting desperate, i wanted out of FL. Or i would not have bought a place with no bathtub or dishwasher. But i do love it here!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Had the James haul my swing to the back in the bushes where Richard burns twigs and blackberry bushes so have one in front with tables the one in back does not have tables but a old gas or lube can from the 40's

 

[microchick]

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.

 

[CapricornFarm]

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.

Awesome! I always wanted a Victorian house to fix up but it will never happen because we love the country and they are almost always in town.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Beautiful dog. See that @CntryBoy777, you could be posting a similar picture a year from now.

That might be a tough order to fill Bruce, I haven't seen a tree like that on the property, but maybe by next yr I might....guess I'll start looking around....