Struktur

04/22/2017

Slow and steady demo progress

04/15/2017

A productive day inside and outside of the barn. You may as well prune the apple tree and cut back the w**d trees while you have a trailer on site...then some treasure found in a little glass jar

04/10/2017

Renewed motivation to get moving! Another round of cleaning out this weekend. Just the heavy things left.

04/08/2017

First there were 5 trips to the ER for my parents in law, in a two week period. Then, the second largest Burlington snowfall in March. Shortly thereafter, the whole family got the flu! Needless to say, we missed our April 1 start, we have questioned whether Adeline and Leonard will have access to the amount of care that they may need if they live here. My partner and her sister have spent hours visiting Assisted Living Facilities, trying to understand the costs and benefits. The reality seems to be, that, if they could foot the bill for two years worth of Assisted Living expenses, for two people, at about $7000/month +/-, and could squeeze themselves into a room in a facility, that may be in this county...but may be an hour away....then assisted living could be okay. But that is all logistics. The real truth is that these two people have devoted a lifetime to their family. The one thing they value more than anything else....is family. The best medicine for them...is family. Living behind our house would nourish them in a way that no nurse could do, no meal in a dining room with strangers could do, no weekly visit by family could do. Looking out their window they will see our house, with activity, kids running out to share dinner or sitting on their sofa doing homework. Chickens in the yard. Daily, hourly interactions with family and the life sustaining activities of family living. So...a few weeks have gone by and today I am back out in the barn, continuing to clean things up. Our Zoning permit is approved. Our building permit is on the horizon. I'll keep you posted!

03/15/2017

16 days until we need to be out of the barn....no warm weather in sight...

03/12/2017

Depending on your renovation, you may have some stuff to do on site, before the builder can get to work. In our case, we have the entire barn to sort through and empty. I have categorized all of our stuff into the following: garden; workshop; clothes; art supplies; sports stuff; furniture; books/cds; and junk. My approach is to do a category at a time. Our basement can get a bit musty, so we cant put everything into the basement without consequences. We got a dehumidifier and have started by bringing down the garden stuff and some workshop stuff. Of course, before it fit into the basement...we had to clean that! The sequence of pictures are the barn (before)...into the house...then through the hole in the floor to the basement....and then the basement setup.

03/11/2017

What is it like to live through a renovation project? We are starting a fast paced project in a month. Grandma and grandpa are moving into the barn. An accessory dwelling unit. I am taking you along for the ride! Stay tuned.

03/11/2017

This is my barn... about the same age

03/11/2017

These are my parents in law...90 and 92 years old

07/13/2016

07/08/2016

The women who made Sweden colorful.
-an exhibit at Malmohus we saw today about women designers in Sweden between 1944-1964. Read the narrative!

07/04/2016