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After the auction in Ithaca didn't seem to have what we wanted, we drove up to Lyons...to attend our "Plan B." This is the sight that greeted us.An absolutely gorgeous, sprawling Victorian on a huge lot with it's contents on it law [Read More]

Saturday morning I went to an auction/farm sale in Ithaca with my parents. It was incredible to be driving in the middle of fields, and to suddenly come across a mass of cars parked along the dirt road in front of this incredible house. Most of the [Read More]

23550 Fairmount, Shaker Heights, OH 44122 is an 1853 farmhouse on a quarter acre lot. It's a perfect little house, with emphasis on the "little" - the only reason why I'm not interested in it is the size - 1200 square feet. The windows and interior t [Read More]

I did travel to south Alabama and visited the new Puppy that we found in the ditch a couple weeks ago at Papa Joe's and my Mom's farm house. (I visited Papa Joe, Mom, and Grandma too.) He is cute as ever, but never sits still long enough to get a go [Read More]

I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that I may have a hoarding problem when it comes to certain things. I prefer to call it collecting. The one item I seem to have a real issue problem interest in since moving here is dishes. You can go to [Read More]

We spent the better part of the afternoon/evening of October 27th carving the 18 pumpkins we grew this year in addition to a few others brought by guests. Next year we're shooting for WAY more, but we'll need more carvers to come help! [Read More]

Seeing how I don't really have any home improvement news to report yet this weekend, and we've been talking about farming and all, I thought it might be fun to show all of you city slickers how some folks are making a living out here on the plains.Th [Read More]

When you are restoring an old farm you have to think of more than just the house. We also have to get the fields back into shape. We decided to do one field and lease the other field to a local farmer. We knew that we would never be able to do both f [Read More]

That is one way to get the kitchen floor cleaned! It's 70 today so I had the deck doors open.  I was working in my office so I never saw them come in.  Beulah and Mona were busy cleaning the kitchen floor and finishing up the cat food! [Read More]

Back a while ago I had discovered old nob and tube wiring in the farm house. When I had opened up the kitchen ceiling to access the source of a leak I revealed the ancient wiring. It looked like it... Bearfort Lodge: The source for all your rustic d [Read More]

Let me start with a little introduction. We, Ed and Patti, decided to leave the city life & move to the "Farm". We sold our home in town and bought a 47 acre farm. Even before we decided to sell our home and move we had been looking for land [Read More]