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07/04/2025

New leak is derailing our yard sale preparations. Old house living at it’s finest! 🤪

09/24/2021

It’s been a day
Woke up motivated. I got the girls off to school, watched the new episode of The Great British Baking Show, called an architect about rebuilding the barn, and then found out from the crew clearing our basement that we have copperheads in the house.
Ummmm…heck, no!
Hours later, I finally found a pest control company that handles snakes and could do an inspection right away. Their recommendation and quote was mind-boggling!
The crew, our contractor, our HVAC guy, and our tenants(who are also contractors) said we were being hosed. Well, dang, it’s not like I am capable of checking this out myself!
And in the interim, Jimmy is quoting “Snakes on a Plane” and looking for hotel rooms. My girls are devastated that their grandparents aren’t coming for their planned visit this weekend. And I am trying to find anyone else to come give us their opinion.
Y’all, I knew buying a 230-year-old house would come with expensive problems. But this was never on my radar!
Geesh. Still trying to work it out. Will let you know how it goes! 😳😩🤣

09/04/2021

This is a post for my dear friend, Lizi 🧡
Jim and I have been making plans for what we are going to plant on the farm - food, flowers and trees.
On our walk this morning, we started wondering about what we could do with what is already living on the farm - a.k.a. foraging our 9 acres (see, Lizi, I learned from you!!). Kind of a no-brainer that we missed as we were dreaming up plans.
So, today’s post is all about the beautiful and plentiful Black Walnut trees we already have.
Jim loves working with walnut wood because of its strength and appearance. Sorry, honey, we aren’t killing these trees!
Instead, I did a little digging into what else we can use then for - mainly the nuts and their husks and shells.
Black walnuts are the only all-wild nuts in the U.S. They have a distinctive flavor that can be richer and bolder than the European walnuts that are normally consumed.
Cooking and baking with black walnuts dates back to the colonists (honey black walnut bread was on the menu for Lewis and Clark). Although harvesting these nuts is a time-consuming pain in the neck that includes old clothes, multiple layers of gloves, and hammers, it seems like the results are worth it!
The shells are used across all industries, including cosmetics, as safe and natural soft-grit abrasives. And the husks and shells are used for dyes and inks.
Wait! What?!!!
First project has been planned - making my own dye and ink from black walnuts!
And then maybe I will try baking…
Next time, I’ll chat about the much-maligned Russian Olive Tree that has pretty much overtaken parts of our farm.
Have a wonderful weekend, Woodheads!

09/01/2021

It’s a rainy day on Montrose Farm, so I thought it would be a good time to show you our Milk House. 😊

08/29/2021

Museum vs Home
First - but also somewhat pertinent to the conversation - sorry for not posting more! Getting a strong internet signal in a 230 year-old house has been challenging (duh, Kate!). Apparently, our electricity isn’t strong enough to support the router.
What to do?
Well, I am struggling with the challenge of making our new old house into a home and still protecting all of its history.
Case in point - this picture. You can see that most of the walls are still the horsehair plaster and all of the windows are original.
When we bought the Montrose Farm, I was adamant we would restore everything and keep the history intact. That meant refurbishing the windows and living with the plaster.
Ummmm…to refinish the windows will cost more than replacing them with more energy efficient windows that look the same but require less maintenance and make the house more environmentally friendly.
And those beautifully wonky old walls are hiding the electricity and plumbing “quirks” we discover every day.
So, is this a museum or a home we hope to live in for a long time?
It’s a home. And I am just going to have to suffer through bringing down plaster and replacing windows in order to keep it a beautiful home for another hundred years.
But the floors stay as is!!!!

08/20/2021

231 year-old floors
They are heart pine, we believe. And they are perfectly imperfect.
They are different colors by room and wear.
There are gaps between some boards that allow you to clearly see the light coming from the basement.
They creak and bow and most of the rooms look like they were built on waves.
There are scratches and divots and small stains and just life lived on this wood.
We’ll never be able sand or refinish them because they are already down to the handmade nails.
But, goodness, do I love these floors!

08/18/2021

Wanna see one of my favorite parts of the farm?

08/17/2021

No, really…these are 4 different colors!
We aren’t tackling any major projects on the first floor of the Montrose Farm main house yet. We have some other priorities (like twisted floor joists and tiny showers).
But, I want to do something to make the rooms we will spend most of our time in feel more like our home. So, paint!
I want white, to help the 231-year-old brick and floors be the focal points. But what white?!
Lots of options, y’all. So many options!
I don’t want a white with too much yellow because the floors are warmer and the brick is red.
And I don’t want a white with too much blue or grey in it because I want the rooms to be more homey than formal.
I think I am going with Natural White from - it just felt good to me.
What do you think?
By the way, how cool are the peel-and-stick paint samples?!!

08/03/2021

Hi! It’s been awhile - I’ve missed you guys. As you may have guessed, our content is going to change a bit just as our life has changed a lot!
There is going to be a lot of old house and small farm adventures - and I can’t wait to share with you this more purposeful life we are trying to create for our family.
I thought I would share one of my favorite features of our Georgian country house. (I’ll post a more general history of Montrose Farm soon! I just need internet. 🤪)
Montrose Farm was not a grand estate - so the simple symmetry of the outside was carried inside. Soooo many beautiful windows, and the ones in the kitchen have these wonderful deep sills. They need some love, but so does the rest of the kitchen, so I guess we’ll wait until we have a plan in place to start making changes.
But the best part is that this side of the house is cuddled by amazing old maple trees, so everyone time you look outside, you feel like you are living in a tree house!
Gotta go unpack some more…have a wonderful day, Woodheads!

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