Welcome to our homestead

Date & Time: 4/14/14 @ 2:05 pm 
☼Mostly sunny, 53°☼
♪Bluesville on the satellite radio♫

♥☺Wishing Well & Enchanting Mist in the Scentsy Warmer☺♥

We bought our property here in Parkman in May of 2013. It has been almost a year; happy at times, full of stress to be certain, but as one of my favorite sayings goes, you can't have rainbows without the rain. 

Here is our cute little house, as it appeared when we first bought it:

 This is the view if you stand right in the front yard. The porch had a fallen post at the back, which is why it looks slanted in the picture. We actually had to hold on to the left side of the surround, push the door open, and hop for it. Now the posts have been removed, it sits on a gravel and cinder block pad, with the stairs moved over to the living room door. That door is going to be the only way onto the deck we're building this summer.

 This is taken standing on the far side of the road. There are chokecherry trees in the rock wall which produce a TON of fruit. There are also raspberry canes in the back, and I plan to add three more varieties that I'll be buying at Tractor Supply this Thursday when I go to work.

This is the view of the back, yes it has some rust stains but nothing a paint job won't cure. The most intensive part of the structural work this spring is going to be jacking up the beams under the trailer and re-setting the cinder block pillars. The only underskirting to the whole house is on the front end and the street facing side, where the ground is sloped enough that I can crawl under with absolutely no issues. The rear end and back of the house nearly sit on the ground with minimal lifting so that'll be easy to fix.

The most pressing issues that we're going to get corrected this month are:

• Well pump not holding a prime, meaning no running water in the house
• Broken pipes under kitchen sink and under house itself
• Leak at water heat intake pipe
• Wiring problem to kitchen and living room rear wall

To lift my spirits and improve the look of the property, before the end of the month I'll be planting:

• Two forsythia, one on each side of the driveway at the terminations of the rock walls
• A lilac bush on the ride side of the porch
• A butterfly bush on the left side of the porch
• Two canes each of Logan black raspberries, Killarney red raspberries, and Fall Gold yellow raspberries
• Elephant Ears bulbs around the tree in the center of the front yard

And the final capstone to the front yard, the fire pit!
More pics and posts to come!