Not Always “Coming Up Roses”
I decided to write this post to share with y’all that renovating a farmhouse is not always progressive, despite the many posts I’ve written about our progress. Overall, I am very proud of the work we’ve accomplished in the past ten months, but it has NOT been easy. Or, to put it another way, renovating a...
Inspirational Farmhouse
My friend Lizzie sent me a link to the most amazing farmhouse renovation: http://gardenandgun.com/article/homeplace-new-life-tennessee-farm It’s from the magazine Garden & Gun, which has become one of my favorites recently. I love the opening sentence of this article: When Bob Doyle and Alex von Hoffmann signed the deed on a century farm in middle Tennessee, they faced...
Starting Our Legacy
Every Thursday I share something on my blog that inspires me, and this Thursday is definitely the happiest post I have ever written or will probably ever write: That’s right folks, we’re expecting our first baby!!!!!!!!!! If you’ve seen our House Hunters episode, you know that a big part of our decision to...
Inspirational Blog
And we thought we were cool. There’s an Australian couple who is doing everything we’re doing, but to the nth degree cooler. “There are many reasons why you might start a blog, but documenting the revival of an 18th century neoclassical ruin seems like a pretty damn good reason if you ask me. In 2013,...
Behind the Scenes of House Hunters
Our Experience Filming House Hunters {here will be a link to the show once it’s posted online, but that may take a few months} So now that our episode of House Hunters aired, I thought I’d spill some info on what it was like to film the show! Realtor Our real life realtor was Bill...
HOUSE HUNTERS!!!!
TONIGHT, tonight, tonight: David and I are going to be appearing on our very own episode of HGTV’s House Hunters!!! Here’s the link to the episode on HGTV’s website: http://videos.hgtv.com/video/movin%27-to-the-country-0227519 Don’t have time for the link? Here’s the recap of it: http://videos.hgtv.com/video/city-life-left-for-slower-pace-0225044 Young Couple Trades DC Lifestyle for Slow Paced Charlottesville Episode HNT-8509H...
Inspiring Doors
Last Thursday I didn’t post anything inspirational because right after work, David and I left town and went to Williamsburg for a nice long weekend! Friends of ours, Mike and Julia, invited us to have a couples weekend getaway and it was seriously amazing. Just the kind of TLC we needed. While we were there,...
Hitch it up
In moving from the city to the country, we discovered many (rather large) differences in lifestyle. Quite a few of these differences are documented in this blog, but the one that probably took me most by surprise was the trash pickup situation. As in there isn’t one… That’s right, there is no municipal trash pickup...
Meriwether’s New Hobby
Our darling cat, Meriwether, has adopted a new hobby since work began on the pipes about a week ago: Yep, that’s right. She likes to bring live birds in through the hole that used to be the floor of the half-bathroom. The first time we caught her red-handed was yesterday, a snow day. We...
What Inspired Us to Move to Charlottesville
For this Thursday’s post about what inspires me, I’m going to tell you what already inspired me… how we ended up choosing Charlottesville as our new home. Almost a year ago, when we started thinking of seriously leaving the DC area, a lot of our friends understood that sentiment and expressed a similar desire themselves....
A Nighttime Visitor
When I arrived home last night, I discovered that we had a guest in our home. Video of our surprise guest (note: opens in a separate window) He must have gotten directions from his friend, the flying squirrel. Unfortunately, his friend visited before we had our cat, Meriwether, so I came home to hearing thuds...
I Dream of… Water
My inspiration– what’s been keeping me going this past week– is the knowledge that soon, we will have new pipes, and therefore dependable running water. David has done so much this past week to get us water but he’s just no match for Mother Nature and her sub-freezing temperatures. People say to just leave the...
