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Tradeoffs
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Honestly, it’s more good news than bad news. But you know how sometimes accomplishing one task leads to the creation of several more tasks? The barn has water. It’s a major milestone. But the tradeoff is that we were left with our property looking like a construction site. I will refrain from telling that…
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One Box and Many Birds
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February has been a transformative month up here on the hill. We officially have a box that will contain some future awesome photo fun. Behold: Everything is paused for a few days as we hopefully wrap up the water situation early next week. After a few glorious days of 60-degree weather, we’re sinking back…
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Building Permits, Big Purple Cabinets
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It’s nice and quiet up here, but we really aren’t in that isolated of a spot. I can get to a grocery store in 7 minutes. I-65 is 12 minutes away. I can even walk down the hill and get to a critically-acclaimed tenderloin sandwich establishment in less than 10 minutes. But you would…
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Right Place, Right Time
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I hesitate to ask too many questions on Facebook darkroom groups, because, well, reasons. But we started talking about looking for a revolving door rather than building a light maze, even though I was initially opposed to the idea. So I threw the request out to Facebook-land. After being told I didn’t want one…
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Dumpster Joy
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Everyone around here has a name. The first hummingbird at the feeder is Sippy, and sometimes Zippy joins them. The pileated woodpeckers are Peaches and Herb. We welcomed their offspring this summer: Piley Cyrus and Pilley Holiday. The redheaded woodpecker is Carlos. And our local trash panda, she is Bea Arthur. Bea didn’t have…
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Progress
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I’ve been working on the barn for most of August — still sorting through many items from our moves from Savannah and Asheville. A lot of items were left behind from the previous owner of our property as well, so I’m very excited for the dumpster that will be arriving in a few days.…