We are back from our vacation to Ireland. Wow! I hope to share some of our favorite photos in a future post, but for now it is business as usual. Wednesday, we arrived home to a power outage due to a major tree fall at our neighbor's house. Fortunately, their home was not damaged, and…
Really. We are.
This week is a hiatus for a typical BHH blog post, in order for us to scale this mountain:
Andy and I are spending our 20th Wedding Anniversary touring Ireland this week. He planned the entire trip. I knew we were traveling, but I did not know where until we reached the…
Last weekend we had a small get-together. The looming deadline to have a clean and tidy house, along with your encouraging comments from last week's post, were exactly the kick in the pants I needed to begin creating an inviting home.
I love giving people a tour of Blake Hill House when they visit. It is one…
I started thinking about this topic shortly after I wrote the posts about the life events that led us to buying Blake Hill House. I really enjoyed writing that series, but it also unearthed a few thoughts in the "feels" department of my brain.
Although I have always lived a stable life with solid, loving…
Work on the enormous front door continues. The front door suffered damage during last year's rough winter. The freeze and thaw of our ice dams followed this path from the roof:
The water seeped through the top of the door and split the seam at the tongue-and-groove joint.
Aside from being unsightly, it was also unsafe. My…
If this quiet blog is any indication, work around here has come to a near standstill. No news is supposed to be good news, but sometimes it is simply no news.
Some of the kids and I traveled quite a bit in August. Since we were away from BHH more than we were home, projects remained…